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Moving alf_data on network drive

simonj — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:02:09 GMT

Hi,I need to move the alf_data on a network drive and it does not seem to work.I'm using alfresco community 4.0e on windows server 2008 R2.I updated alfresco-global.properties and added those 2 lines:dir.root=//Xfiles/info$/Archive_GED_Entretien/alf_datadir.keystore=C:/Alfresco/alf_data/keystoreI ha

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

102020 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:17:46 GMT

I've got the same problem I'm working on. Actually on your network share (for testing), set your share permissions to 'everyone' + read/write.
Once I did that it created the contentstore. Now I'm trying to figure out the correct permissions as I'm seeing 'access denied' in event viewer when I'm trying it over the domain admin permissions.

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

102020 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:41:18 GMT

Issue resolved, so this is what you've gotta do if your setting up an alf_data network share:

I'm running on Windows Server 2008 Ent R2

1. Edit alfresco-global.properites located in: c:\alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes
Use this:
dir.root=C:/Alfresco/alf_data
dir.contentstore=\\\\FQDN-GOES-HERE\\Alfresco\\contentstore
dir.contentstore.deleted=\\\\FQDN-GOES-HERE\\Alfresco\\contentstore.deleted

Yes, make sure the slashes are doubled on network locations, it has to do with the way tomcat parses them.
Also note dir.root is still on your tomcat server, you want it to be like this as you want lucene index to run locally for performance purposes.

2. Make your network share, set permissions, in my case, I shared it with domain administrator only.

3. On the server running tomcat, go Start > 'Run' > services.msc
Find 'Apache Tomcat alfrescoTomcat' and open up the properties.
Goto the 'Log On' tab, change from 'local system account' to 'this account'.
Enter your domain administrator credentials here, or what ever share permission you set back on the file server.

4. Stop the tomcat server

5. Delete your current alf_data (you only need to delete cotentstore and contentstore.deleted)

6. Delete your database

7. Start the tomcat server, it should now recreate database, and create new contentstore and contentstore.deleted on the file server.

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

simonj — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:59:08 GMT

Thanks a lot!
Everythings works perfectly!

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

102020 — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:34:29 GMT

I have run into 1 issue though, hoping someone else has the issue, or knows how to resolve it.

Basically, the shares over the network work great, but try doing a search, I get no results. However when testing with a standalone install, or with the contentstore on the localsystem, I do get results. I've thrown my permissions to 'everyone read/write' and still nothing in this case.

Any clues?

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

102020 — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:58:12 GMT

Answer is here: https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=46598&p=138693&hilit=lucene#p138693

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

nabilfaouzi — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:31:13 GMT

Hi, I followed your instruction but i don't understand how and where can i do the step 6 "Delete your database", can you explain plz

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

luyanda — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:56:29 GMT

I can not access alfresco on the browser when i mount the contentstores. It does create them but i can't access alfresco.
Please assist me with this issue.

dir.root=C:/ALFRES~2/alf_data
dir.contentstore=\\\\D:\\Alfresco1\\alf_data\\contentstore
dir.contentstore.deleted=\\\\D:\\Alfresco1\\alf_data\\contentstore.deleted

Working on Alfresco Enterprise 4.1.3

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

mrogers — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:16:22 GMT

get rid of those backslashes before the D. Its not needed if you are using windows drive letters.

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

luyanda — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:14:52 GMT

I removed them but still does the same the same thing. But when i copy content from the default drive which is C: it runs.
So my main concern is, by trying to create new storage point is more of making backup. Do i have to copy old content to the new storage?

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

luyanda — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:39:51 GMT

Now i can't find the content when i do the search in the repository yet it update on new store.
What could be the problem?

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

luyanda — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:38:24 GMT

Now i am able to search. My concern now is, i am suppose to copy the old alf_data on the other drive to the new one? because if i leave the new store empty i'm not able to access alfresco (can't login).

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

mrogers — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:47:12 GMT

yes of course you need to move the data to the new location.

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

luyanda — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:35:05 GMT

Is it possible to create new content on the new contentstore beside copying the old alf_data contettent store. Lets say the default drive is C: and now you want to use a new drive which is D:..

Please help me.

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

luyanda — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:37:14 GMT

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

luyanda — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:57:00 GMT

Hi Mrogers,

What if i want to use a contentstore selectore for multiple storage without copying alf_data. Because what i would like to achieve is to apply the property define in the contentstore selector file and use a rule or script to create content into the new store.

I have done the following:I enabled the content-store-selector-context.xml file in C:alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension and added the aspect and the property name in share-config-custom.xml in C:alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension. I applied the aspect and created a rule to store new content into the new storage specified in the contentstore selector. But still i can't get it right.

Please assist me.

I'm using Alfresco Enterprise 4.1.4

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

houblonde — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:59:00 GMT

I followed those steps many times and different ways, I can't make it works. So I tried to go as simple as possible.
Here is my configuration, to avoid network issue, but still my goal is to put it on the network at the end :
dir.root=C:/Alfresco/alf_data
dir.contentstore=C:/Test/contentstore
dir.contentstore.deleted=C:/Test/contentstore.deleted

The contentstore and .deleted haven'd get recreated.
I tried \\ instead of /, no change.
I did try with and without deleting the Database.
psql -U postgres -c "drop database alfresco;"

I'm on a Windows 2008 R2 and I'm running Alfresco 4.2F.

Now I'm running out of idea.

And once I'm in this situation, I need to re-install everything.
just like I corrupted something and can't recover from it.

Thanks for any help

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

mrogers — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:08:06 GMT

Luganda,

You can use the ReplicatingContentStore with inbound and outbound replication turned off to have your old data on c and new data on d.

Or call alfresco support for help with the content store selector. They will require more details than "I can't get it right". And please note that policy driven storage should not be used for disk management. I'm working with the docs team at the moment to get this documented better.

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

fedemori — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:51:00 GMT

To use a network drive don't use the mapping letter in the properties but the UNC path

NO
<code>
dir.root=C:/ALFRES~2/alf_data
dir.contentstore=\\\\D:\\Alfresco1\\alf_data\\contentstore
dir.contentstore.deleted=\\\\D:\\Alfresco1\\alf_data\\contentstore.deleted
<code>

but
<code>
dir.root=C:/ALFRES~2/alf_data
dir.contentstore=//server/alfresco/alf_data/contentstore
dir.contentstore.deleted=//server/alfresco/alf_data/contentstore.deleted
<code>

Re: Moving alf_data on network drive

gnanad — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:55:17 GMT

Hello All,

i'm new in alfresco
i just read this threat, and thinking if i'm moving alf_data, contentstore to drive's attached (NAS), can i follow this step to ?
or if any step for moving alf_data & contentstore to attached drive (NAS) could you all please suggest to me?

very appreciate to all of you