[GH-ISSUE #141] Ambar not finding documents added to SMB drive #140

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opened 2026-02-27 15:55:15 +03:00 by kerem · 0 comments

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Originally created by @bc2m on GitHub (Mar 27, 2018).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/RD17/ambar/issues/141

It seems that Ambar is only indexing / re-indexing files which were originally on the NAS server when it was first started. The SMB crawlers appear to be running as does the pipeline, but we cannot find content from newly added documents (docx) or PDFs for example. We purchased a really fast 24-core HP server but it ran out of disk space for the index (4Tb) and our IT dept moved the index on to a virtual disk on another windows 2012 server. I don't know, but I wonder if this is the problem, and, although they think they moved it, it is still looking at the original index file?

Does anyone have a suggestion why the SMB crawler is not picking up newly added documents, or even some documents we know were on the server originally and are still there. Is there a log file in Ambar we can search to see if those files are being indexed? I'm new to all this, so any help would be really very much appreciated. If there is something I've not explained correctly, please advise. Thanks

Originally created by @bc2m on GitHub (Mar 27, 2018). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/RD17/ambar/issues/141 It seems that Ambar is only indexing / re-indexing files which were originally on the NAS server when it was first started. The SMB crawlers appear to be running as does the pipeline, but we cannot find content from newly added documents (docx) or PDFs for example. We purchased a really fast 24-core HP server but it ran out of disk space for the index (4Tb) and our IT dept moved the index on to a virtual disk on another windows 2012 server. I don't know, but I wonder if this is the problem, and, although they *think* they moved it, it is still looking at the original index file? Does anyone have a suggestion why the SMB crawler is not picking up newly added documents, or even some documents we know were on the server originally and are still there. Is there a log file in Ambar we can search to see if those files are being indexed? I'm new to all this, so any help would be really very much appreciated. If there is something I've not explained correctly, please advise. Thanks