High Availability Configuration

[ethanadams]

I've been reading http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/High_Availability_Configuration and I am still confused about the content store replication setup.  It seems that the replication options (ReplicatingContentStore or ContentStoreReplicator) rely on the fact that the secondary stores will be mount points (network drives). 

Is this correct?  If so, will there ever be a concept of a Remote content store, where there may be 1+ servers that run content store services only, and the repositries connect to these services remotely?

[derek]

Hi,

They do rely on the secondary stores being network drives or local systems.

We don't have a remote content store to act as secondary content stores.  Such remote replication can be done with RSync, but to have full transactional replication, we'd have to think about writing a remote ContentStore.  Effectively, acting as a mapping service for file distribution.

For inbound replication (i.e. a server lazily pulling the content in from a remote location), we could write a store on top of the webdav or web service interfaces.

Regards