How to temporarily prevent replica from receiving updates?

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Hi everyone,

Here
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/admin-indices-update-settings.html I
read that "Another optimization option is to start the index without any
replicas, and only later adding them". My index is relatively write-heavy,
so when I reindex, I shut down the replica (it's in master=false, data=true
mode) and bring it back later to receive updates in bulk.

Is there any way to make replica "invisible" for the updates, but online
for querying, without shutting it down? And afterwards enable it back so it
will receive updates? In this period it would serve stale data, which is ok.

Thanks!

2

No, there isn't an option to do so.

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Mikhail Sayapin
mikhail.sayapin@gmail.comwrote:

Hi everyone,

Here
Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic I
read that "Another optimization option is to start the index without any
replicas, and only later adding them". My index is relatively write-heavy,
so when I reindex, I shut down the replica (it's in master=false, data=true
mode) and bring it back later to receive updates in bulk.

Is there any way to make replica "invisible" for the updates, but online
for querying, without shutting it down? And afterwards enable it back so it
will receive updates? In this period it would serve stale data, which is ok.

Thanks!

3

I see. Will it work if I just reboot the server without zen discovery
or with another cluster name so it cannot join the cluster back? I
will try it myself, but maybe there is something I should know
beforehand.

Thanks!

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Shay Banon kimchy@gmail.com wrote:

No, there isn't an option to do so.

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Mikhail Sayapin mikhail.sayapin@gmail.com
wrote:

Hi everyone,

Here Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic I
read that "Another optimization option is to start the index without any
replicas, and only later adding them". My index is relatively write-heavy,
so when I reindex, I shut down the replica (it's in master=false, data=true
mode) and bring it back later to receive updates in bulk.

Is there any way to make replica "invisible" for the updates, but online
for querying, without shutting it down? And afterwards enable it back so it
will receive updates? In this period it would serve stale data, which is ok.

Thanks!

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Mikhail Sayapin
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