Exporting large fileplans

[zmsil]

Hi

I am currently using Alfresco 3.4.d. I have set up a records management site and have exported more than 18000 records into the repository. Now my issue is that when i try to export my fileplan, it gives me the .zip and .acp options but then with whatever choice i make, i cannot seem to downloads the export the files into my local drive. I have been told that it is because the file is too large.

How can i export the large file plan?

Zee

[afaust]

Hello,

who / what exactly told you that the file is too large? Your browser / web client, your file explorer, your IT guy? Apart from your hard drive being full (which I'll just assume is not the case), there may be limits in place in your network that don't allow you to download too large files via HTTP (enforced by proxies). Does your Alfresco have CIFS enabled? If so, you could try this (WebDAV wouldn't work in this case, since it is also HTTP).

Regards
Axel

[zmsil]

Thanks a lot Axel. I have managed to resolve that issue and have successfully exported my fileplan which is about 7GB. Now i am facing the problem of importing that .acp file onto another similar version installation of alfresco.

[zmsil]

Hi again. So i am still failing to import my fileplan. what has prompted me to post here again is that when i tried to import the .acp file via an action rule(i couldnt import from share or the conventional explorer methods) i received an error saying that alfresco Failed to find xml meta-data file within .acp package. When i opened the .acp file using WinRAR i saw that the XLM file was there so i decided to export the filepan again.

The second time i exported the file plan, the file size of the .acp file had dropped significantly from 7GB to 4.5GB. i tried one last time and the file was 6GB. how can i tell which .acp file is complete and how do i import into another installation of Alfresco

I have tried exporting and importing smaller .acp files and experienced success.

Zee

[afaust]

Hello,

this amount of different export results may point to a general problem in the Records Management module. Provided you select the same set of data to export, you should end up with almost identical exports. Differences of up to 2.5 GiB are just too extreme not to be an indicator of inconsistent exports. Unfortunately, I have not worked a lot with Records Management myself and have no experience with the export behaviour. I haven't found an issue for this in JIRA yet, but may just be using the wrong keywords.

You might try one of two things:
- test a migration to Alfresco 4.x with RM 2.x on a duplicate data set, and see, if the newer versions are able to produce consistent exports
- get a hold of Roy Wetherall (@rwetherall) or another RM dev (don't know the name of one at the moment though) via this forum, twitter or other social channel - maybe someone how knows more of the history of Alfresco RM (3.4 is history, I did not participate in - I've only dabbled in RM 2.x on Alfresco 4.x) can shed some light on this.

Regards
Axel

[zmsil]

Hi, thanks for the quick response. i will try to contact them.Yesterday i tried another appproach at this. i decided to export my file plan in bits and pieces. i decided to export from record category level instead of the entire documentlibrary at once. This time the file sizes were consistent. One of my record categories was 900MB and when i tried to use the share client import on my other install of alfresco, it(unlike the bigger bulkier ACP files) loaded and got to 100% but then gave a failure notice. I've tried checking out the logs but i can find anything

An error that i am now getting when i try to import is that alfresco says " Failed to import package at line 165; column 33 due to error: 01060075 Access Denied. You do not have the appropriate permissions to perform this operation."