Re: Restarting w/o losing the indices

[D Bera <dbera web gmail com>]

If you want to know more about index synchronization, this is from the
changelog of beagled/IndexSynchronization.cs =>

Index Synchronization

* If PathFinder.HomeDir is on NFS, or BEAGLE_SYNCHRONIZE_LOCALLY is set we
synchronize the indexes locally (to /tmp/beagle-$user).
* Needed to move all the indexes to a separate directory, so if you
don't want to
re-index everything, move them to ~/.beagle/Indexes.
* Configuration option to disable synchronization totally.
... <snip>

On 10/12/05, D Bera <dbera web gmail com> wrote:
> Are you indexing files on NFS (or something mounted remotely) ? This
> seems to be a problem with index synchronization (which, I think,
> copies the index locally, does more indexing and copies it back upon
> shutdown). I noticed there is a flag to turn off this feature:
>
> $ beagle-config daemon ToggleIndexSynchronization
> (Toggles whether your indexes will be synchronized locally if your
> home directory is on a network device (eg. NFS/Samba))
>
> You may want to play with the ToggleIndexSynchronization flag till the
> problem is fixed. But I am not sure of its consequences, be careful.
> Good luck,
> - d.
>
> On 10/12/05, Henry S. Thompson <ht inf ed ac uk> wrote:
> > So I just did beagle-shutdown, waited 10 minutes, checked ps, and
> > started a new daemon.  Result: 4 days worth of indices thrown away :-(
> >
> > I attach the end of the old session log and the beginning of the new
> > one -- can any expert point me at where in the process the indices are
> > getting trashed, or better, suggest how to avoid this in future?
> >
> > I'd enter a bug in Bugzilla, but this is too vague as it stands. . .
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ht
> >
> >
> >
>