topic Compressed storage in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/compressed-storage/m-p/229730#M182860 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I question that surfaced during a contact with our IT-department. We are going to have about 1 miljon documents in our Alfresco installation. It is mostly going to be documents that simply are waiting for archiving, but still need to be accessable. The question is if it is possible to apply compression-algoritms to the document storage? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The way our setup look it would be preferable if the compression happed in the webapplication both from the storage point of view, but also to limit the impact of bandwith between the servers. I'd also belive that it would be easier to add webservers to get processingpower than&nbsp; a database or&nbsp; a fileserver?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Just a thought</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Roland</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 May 2010 08:38:08 GMT buurd 2010-05-20T08:38:08Z Compressed storage https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/compressed-storage/m-p/229730#M182860 Hi!I question that surfaced during a contact with our IT-department. We are going to have about 1 miljon documents in our Alfresco installation. It is mostly going to be documents that simply are waiting for archiving, but still need to be accessable. The question is if it is possible to apply compr Thu, 20 May 2010 08:38:08 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/compressed-storage/m-p/229730#M182860 buurd 2010-05-20T08:38:08Z Re: Compressed storage https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/compressed-storage/m-p/229731#M182861 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Alfresco documents are stored as a conventional file in a file system, and a set of metadata held in a database management system.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Have you looked at storing your files on a file system that does the compression on the fly? Typically, documents need to be uncompressed during the first few hours of storage, while the indexing methods work through the file. Once the full-text-search indexes are compiled, the document will not likely be read again for quite awhile, so they can safely be compressed.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 May 2010 18:32:03 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/compressed-storage/m-p/229731#M182861 invictus9 2010-05-20T18:32:03Z