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Questions about Alfresco Repository

claudio2009 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:12:06 GMT

Hi community, I've some questions about Alfresco's repository.I learned Alfresco uses a database for store meta-data,rules,actions and uses a repository (folder alf_data) to store content of files.As i see, Alfresco don't maintain the name and extension of stored files but convert them into a .bin f

Re: Questions about Alfresco Repository

mrogers — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:21:38 GMT

Thre are lots and lots of options.

If all you need is to "see the original files" then use one of the remote file system projections of alfresco . There's a long list including cifs and ftp that you can just use an OS command to copy out the files. Or if you need to maintain your alfresco metadata you can use an ETL tool. Or use the export facilities from alfresco. Or write your own programs to pull the content from alfresco and stick it in your new system.

Re: Questions about Alfresco Repository

claudio2009 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:28:47 GMT

Ty for your reply mrogers.

I did some tests

use the export facilities from alfresco

If you means to export / import ".ACP files", this does not satisfy my request because the files are shown as content0.bin content1.bin and so on.

There's a long list including cifs and ftp

I tried the CIFS protocol in July and I remember having discarded this option because of crashes and errors.
Obviously, when I will update Alfresco,i will retry to test it.

Seems FTP protocol satisfy my requirement.
According the wiki i create the directory subsystems/fileServers/default/default/ in tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension
and i copy-pasted from global path the following files:

-custom-servers-context.xml
-file-servers.properties

in properties i made these change


cifs.enabled=false

… "cifs parameters"

ftp.enabled=true
ftp.port=21
ftp.ipv6.enabled=false
ftp.bindTo=
ftp.rootDirectory=/Alfresco
ftp.charSet=utf-8
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In this way is a good setup or i need to know more?

Now i have another question:

In future, i wanna move Alfresco repository and the database on a different machine from where I installed Alfresco.
If Alfresco's machine blow up (media failure) the remote file system CIFS FTP are inactive, so, how do I reach the contents?

Sorry for my english and thanks for your patience,
Claudio

Only for info:
Server: Virtual Machine OS Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2 community nightly build 14-07. (i will upgrade at 11 september)
Client: Windows

Re: Questions about Alfresco Repository

mrogers — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:08:55 GMT

If your machine "blows up" then you put your disaster recovery plan into action and
restore that backup onto another machine.

As with any other IT system if you care about the data then backup is vital.

Re: Questions about Alfresco Repository

shamabbas — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:58:38 GMT

Hi all,
I wrote java code using web services client to upload and download files into and from alfresco repository. Uploading successfully working and so download is. Download has a lil issue hopefully il resolve it soon.
BUT i wanted to ask that the path
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/sample/folder/Company%20Home where our uploaded file get stores if we want to retrieve them and

if move cursor to file it shows the following URL http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/d2edd2fa-b576-4a09-b469-7d3837965bf5/file555.txt hence by clicking we can download it.

Is there any method from where i can call this URL "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/" , index i know how to call il do so and then file name too but the URL is being used before these two things can i use it dynamically? Calling any function??? or ANYHOW????

Please help as soon as possible.. ill be very thankful to you guys!!!!