Refreshing a Collection

You last indexed a reference site several weeks ago, and now you want to refresh the collection to reindex any documents which have been added or changed.

Warning! If you are refreshing a collection that was built by the Verity Spider using the -noindex option, and by another indexing tool such as mkvdk, you must perform a resync before a refresh. This is to ensure that the persistent store has the latest document information for the collection.

NOTE: The following command must be issued as a single line from the command-line. It is broken up here for readability.

: vspider -collection icd.coll
: -refresh -host www.company.com
: -include http://www.company.com/reference/*

Case-specific Options

Option	Reason
-refresh	You just want to make sure you get the latest versions of any of the documents in the collection.
-host, -include	These options allow you to control what is indexed. When you use `-refresh`, you must use at least one of `-host`, `-domain`, `-nofollow`, or `-unlimited`.

Unnecessary Options for this Case

Option	Reason
-start, -restart	When you use the `-refresh` option, you cannot use the `-start` or `-restart` options.

Now say you want to refresh the collection again, only this time you want to exclude a directory because you know the documents have not changed.

NOTE: The following command must be issued as a single line from the command-line. It is broken up here for readability.

: vspider -collection icd.coll -refresh -host www.company.com
: -exclude "http://www.company.com/financial/*"

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