Rebuild Custom Indexes in Content Delivery in Sitecore 7.0

Question

This question was previously asked with the qualifier of Sitecore 6.x.

• How do I rebuild a custom Lucene index on a Sitecore content delivery server?

Since Sitecore 7.0 is out and widely used my team and I are in need of a new answer and debate to this question.

What would be the best way I can rebuild a custom index in Sitecore 7.0 Content Delivery?

Edit: (More Info) I do not have access to the code being developed. I run about 320 different websites across multiple Sitecore Instances most sites have their own Lucene Indexes.

Answer 1

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but we wrote a class that gets called by task agent. The class itself simply looks for the specified index and rebuilds it.

Sitecore.Search.SearchManager.GetIndex("custom_index").Rebuild()

You could also call it in publishing pipeline if you like to rebuild your custom indexes on publish event.

Answer 2

We went with integrating Remote Rebuild Strategy in our Content Delivery servers. It is working like a charm.

Here are two good sources on that Strategy:

1. http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore7/70/sitecore_search_and_indexing_guide_sc70-a4.pdf
2. http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2013/04/Sitecore-7-Index-Update-Strategies.aspx