Index deleted deleted on Mage Reindex

[greabs]

Hi,

I noticed the Elastic Index is being removed every time the Magento Reindex Catalog Search runs. Since it might take some time (more than een hour) before the re-indexing is done, this would mean the site's search functionality is not available(!).

So my question is: why isn't the Elastic index being updated, but instead being build up from the ground during the Magento Reindex ? Is this intended ?

[ctasca]

@greabs @hidonet There is a solution for this in Elasticsearch itself If I remember well. that would copy to a different cluster while rebuilding another. I'll see how can be integrated in the module