topic Disaster Recovery in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/disaster-recovery/m-p/134946#M94707 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I posted a similar post on another forum, but I'm switching my question up to be more of a discussion in order to get ideas from everyone willing to chime in.&nbsp; Thanks in advance for your input.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We have thousands (thousands and thousands and thousands) of documents which are stored in scattered network drives, and on Windows Sharepoint Sites.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Right now, in case of a disaster, we have no way to prioritize the recovery order for our documents (obviously some are more critical than others).&nbsp; We have around 17,000 employees, and MANY divisions, which is why we have documents everywhere.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Has anybody worked or works on disaster recovery who could provide some advice on how to approach this, using Alfresco?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Right now the idea is basically to add a metadata field (Recovery Priority) to documents uploaded to Alfresco.&nbsp; The options will be 1, 2, 3, or 4.&nbsp; Based on the value given, that's the order in which the documents would be recovered.&nbsp; So, a user would upload a document in their space and select a priority.&nbsp; Once they click finish, this document would be moved to another server (based on the priority value they entered).&nbsp; </SPAN><EM><STRONG>So physically, the documents would live on another server, but visually, we would like them to appear in the alfresco interface, under the users' space, as if it were there</STRONG></EM><SPAN>.&nbsp; So in case of disaster, we would recover server 1 first, then server 2, and so on.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is just an idea, I don't have a clue if it is actually possible or not (the part about the files living on other servers, but visually displaying in the Alfresco interface).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I would love to hear the different scenarios everyone has used or is using when it comes to storing documents, and disaster recovery.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:13:17 GMT mskarica 2007-09-18T15:13:17Z Disaster Recovery https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/disaster-recovery/m-p/134946#M94707 I posted a similar post on another forum, but I'm switching my question up to be more of a discussion in order to get ideas from everyone willing to chime in.&nbsp; Thanks in advance for your input.We have thousands (thousands and thousands and thousands) of documents which are stored in scattered networ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:13:17 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/disaster-recovery/m-p/134946#M94707 mskarica 2007-09-18T15:13:17Z Re: Disaster Recovery https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/disaster-recovery/m-p/134947#M94708 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>That would require some nifty UI customisation - probably a lot of work. I would suggest instead you take a look at the high-availability and clustering options the Alfresco server already supports.</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/High_Availability_Configuration_V1.4_to_V2.1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/High_Availability_Configuration_V1.4_to_V2.1</A><BR /><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/System_Administration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/System_Administration</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hope this helps,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Kevin</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:03:27 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/disaster-recovery/m-p/134947#M94708 kevinr 2007-09-21T10:03:27Z