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Anyway to put the Repository on a remote share?

netruner — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:56:16 GMT

I am running 2003 R2 w Labs 3 Stable and mysql - We have a Buffalo NAS dedicated for the content that we want to put into Alfresco. My 'front end' is a VMWare Server - can we put the repository (and any other data files I dont know about yet!) on the NAS? If so how??? I realize it is not recommended

Re: Anyway to put the Repository on a remote share?

mrogers — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:44:37 GMT

Your content is stored on the filesystem with the location pointed to by the repository.properties.

In particular the settings for dir.root, dir.contentstore and dir.indexes. Which should be fairly self-explanatory.

So to move your content store to a NAS what you would do is
A) Mount your NAS device on your alfresco server. On windows this will show up as a drive letter. On unix will be part of a filesystem.
B) Shutdown alfresco.
C) Copy your content store to your NAS device
D) Change your custom-repository properties to point to your content store on your NAS device.
E) Start up and test alfresco.

Re: Anyway to put the Repository on a remote share?

netruner — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:47:44 GMT

Excellent - Many thanks!!!!!