Anyway to put the Repository on a remote share?

[netruner]

I am running 2003 R2 w Labs 3 Stable and mysql - We have a Buffalo NAS dedicated for the content that we want to put into Alfresco. My 'front end' is a VMWare Server - can we put the repository (and any other data files I dont know about yet!) on the NAS? If so how??? I realize it is not recommended but we are gig connected across the board so we shouldn't have a latency issue.

Many thanks for any help you can give!

BTW I went thru the cluster guide with the idea of picking out the pieces I needed but ended up confused.

[mrogers]

Your content is stored on the filesystem with the location pointed to by the repository.properties.

In particular the settings for dir.root, dir.contentstore and dir.indexes.   Which should be fairly self-explanatory.

So to move your content store to a NAS what you would do is
A) Mount your NAS device on your alfresco server.  On windows this will show up as a drive letter.   On unix will be part of a filesystem.
B) Shutdown alfresco.
C) Copy your content store to your NAS device
D) Change your custom-repository properties to point to your content store on your NAS device.
E) Start up and test alfresco.

[netruner]

Excellent - Many thanks!!!!!