Re: [VuFind-General] Mass deletions on VuFind

[Demian K. <dem...@vi...>]

What ILS are you using?  At Villanova, we take advantage of the fact that Voyager allows an export of a file of all deleted MARC records -- we just download this file from the ILS, then run it through util/deletes.php to remove all of the affected records.

- Demian

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> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 11:36 AM
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> Subject: [VuFind-General] Mass deletions on VuFind
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> Dear all,
> 
> I know this has come up a few times before, but I wondered how sites
> are
> managing record deletions? Those of us in the IT section have been
> surprised to discover that our library deletes relatively large numbers
> of records every week - too many to delete those records individually
> via solr. Deleting the index and reindexing the entire database from
> scratch completely seems to be the only way to ensure the system is up
> to date - but that can take upwards of two hours of downtime, which is
> unacceptable.
> 
> Is anyone else in the same situation, and how do you get round it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael.
> 
> Michael Fake
> Library Systems Manager
> London School of Economics & Political Science
> T: +44 (0) 20 7955 6447
> E: m....@ls...
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