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Moving large datasets around Alfresco

bengrah — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:13:10 GMT

Hi all,Got a question around moving large datasets around Alfresco. We're in the middle of migrating large datasets into our on-premise installation, these can be around 500Gb on average. We migrate the data in using the Bulk FS tool that comes with Alfresco and it works quite well for the most part

Re: Moving large datasets around Alfresco

mrogers — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:25:00 GMT

You should be able to move nodes around the repo without affecting the content properties. That will be much, much better than re-importing all the content again.

I'm not sure how that surfaces in the user interface(s) but you can copy a content property from one node to another which effectively links more than one node to the same content.

Equially rename over ftp or cifs should be quick since its just a rename, not a reload.

Re: Moving large datasets around Alfresco

bengrah — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:13:53 GMT

It's not so much content properties is the problem, we've got a folder with 18 Gb that isn't moving when we try to through the various interfaces. It's nothing to do with content properties or renaming of anything.

Re: Moving large datasets around Alfresco

mdutoo — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:01:34 GMT

Hi

As mrogers said, folders don't "move", they get renamed (save if you use a remote interface such as CIFS, WebDav etc. through a Windows Explorer). So use the Alfresco UI to rename your folder and it should take no time and appear to be moved when you go back to your Windows Explorer / CIFS / WebDav etc. window.

But in case you want to reimport it all, the most flexible (set per-file metadata) and efficient (per-file transaction) way is the Alfresco ETL Connector for Talend :

http://knowledge.openwide.fr/Main/AlfrescoETLConnector

Regards

Re: Moving large datasets around Alfresco

kaushik_joshi — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:19:35 GMT

Hi , We have set Alfresco and created user name as per mail ID. Now co. decided to integrate with AD and successfully done. e.g local user "test1@adtest.local" and our AD also we have same Name "test1@adtest.local" but both password are different. Now from both different password we can access Profile. Now we need to stop local database user login and move all data in AD login. Need correct process to move data. We have more than 100 user which data we need to migrate so kindly help to complete task.