[Koha] Zebra rebuild frequency

[Mason James]

On 2014-11-15, at 1:53 PM, Paul A wrote:

> At 12:53 PM 11/15/2014 +1300, Mason James wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-11-15, at 9:49 AM, Paul A wrote:
>> 
>> > At 04:20 PM 11/14/2014 +0000, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:
>> >> Paul, I'm sorry you suffered that on your Koha, but I've never seen it. I'm
>> >> only aware of a situation that could trigger that on NORMARC (recently
>> >> fixed) using DOM indexing.
>> >> [snip]
>> >> > > > 3.8.5 (production) and from my test notes 3.12.various and 3.14.2
>> >> > > required a
>> >> > > > complete biblio re-index after deleting a biblio record.   Has this
>> >> > been
>> >> > > > fixed?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I don't think that was ever true. [snip]
>> >
>> > It is true on our production box (and its backup; sandbox in other use) Koha: 3.08.05.000 on Linux 3.2.0-31-generic (12.04LTS), Perl version: 5.014002, MySQL version: mysql 5.5.24,
>> > Apache version: 2.2.22, Zebra: 2.0.44
>> >
>> > Pls see <http://opac.navalmarinearchive.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=kent+beyond+reef>, two biblios for Kent, "Beyond the reef": one is good, the other has been deleted, gives a 404 on the OPAC page, but will not go away from Zebra by cron job alone (it will go away next time I CLI re-index.) I have a feeling that when zebra says "incremental" it means just that -- adding new data, but not deleting what has gone from MySQL.
>> >
>> > Slightly different case, <http://opac.navalmarinearchive.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=steele+worcester> -- this was produced by "overwriting" an existing biblio (old, incomplete) with a new Z39.50, and adding an item -- it's the same biblio, but the "dead" instance will not disappear until I re-index.
>> >
>> 
>> 
>> > This is a further example of the (for us) need to CLI re-index as the cronjob does not handle it.
>> 
>> 
>> you should show an example of your cron file - its probably just misconfigured?
> 
> 
> It's been running every minute for two years ;=} using
> 
> KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
> KOHAPATH=/usr/share/koha
> PERL5LIB=$KOHAPATH/lib
> */1 * * * *    koha    $KOHAPATH/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -b -z > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> 
> paul at nelson:/$ grep CRON /var/log/syslog
> 
> [snip]Nov 14 21:22:01 nelson CRON[23795]: (koha) CMD (/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> /tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
> Nov 14 21:23:01 nelson CRON[23842]: (koha) CMD (/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> /tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
> Nov 14 21:24:01 nelson CRON[23930]: (koha) CMD (/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> /tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
> Nov 14 21:25:01 nelson CRON[24054]: (koha) CMD (/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> /tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
> Nov 14 21:26:01 nelson CRON[24139]: (koha) CMD (/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> /tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
> Nov 14 21:27:01 nelson CRON[24182]: (koha) CMD (/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> /tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
> Nov 14 21:28:02 nelson CRON[24310]: (koha) CMD (/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> /tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
> 
> Best -- Paul
> 



try using the -v arg, it will show you what it is actually doing


$ /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -b -z -v
Zebra configuration information
================================
Zebra biblio directory      = /var/lib/koha/mastcaro/biblios
Zebra authorities directory = /var/lib/koha/mastcaro/authorities
Koha directory              = /usr/share/koha
Lockfile                    = /var/lock/zebra_koha_mastcaro/rebuild/rebuild..LCK
BIBLIONUMBER in :     999$c
BIBLIOITEMNUMBER in : 999$d
================================
====================
exporting authority
====================

Records exported: 0

Records exported: 0
====================
REINDEXING zebra
====================
====================
exporting biblio
====================
1.
Records exported: 1      <<<<< DELETED BIB, REMOVED FROM ZEBRA

Records exported: 0
====================
REINDEXING zebra
====================
====================
CLEANING
====================
$