Network Attached Storage (NAS) in Alfresco

[zipho]

Hi! All

Does Alfresco 1.2 support NAS functionality, and how?  I am new in Linux, and Alfresco, and please excuse my english its not very good. I have managed to install Alfresco, and got the CIFS functionality working….but to easy migration from a current ECM system, i wanted to know the above.

I will appreciate your help, COMMUNITY. Thank you in advance….

[rdanner]

Hi! All

Does Alfresco 1.2 support NAS functionality, and how?  I am new in Linux, and Alfresco, and please excuse my english its not very good. I have managed to install Alfresco, and got the CIFS functionality working….but to easy migration from a current ECM system, i wanted to know the above.

I will appreciate your help, COMMUNITY. Thank you in advance….

When you say NAZ functionality what do you mean?  What are kind of features are you looking for?

Do you mean can alfresco use a NAZ to store its content?  I suppose you could easily mount any device.  Alfresco wouldnt know the difference. You might want to check the wiki for high availability configurations of Alfresco.  I havent looked at this in a while.  Last I looked there was a "share nothing" configuration.

In short I dont have a good answer for you. Someone at alfresco may be more help.  I wanted to respond to ask for more details from you if you wouldnt mind.

[zipho]

Thank you r.danner;

This is what I was trying to bring across: A scenario is like this;
I'm trying to have one separate machine for the Alfresco server (Alfresco, Tomcat…), and another for Content Store. With the use of Network Attached Storage (NAS) , does Alfresco allow remote content storage.? The Idea is having this computer with a couple of hard drives (RAID) that will store alfresco's content.
I hope this is clear…….I visited the wiki link and found it usefull…

Thank you in advance;

[emaatouk]

I've tried this tips but I have always the same problem.

The alfresco's application doesn't start in my Tomcat if my dir.root is in a shared folder.

Someone have tried this feature ????

Thanks

[lesoft]

Hi -

I am experiencing a similar issue when I set dir.root property to a shared NAS storage. During startup it error out with a message CONTENT INTEGRITY ERROR: System content not found in content store. When I set dir.root property to a local directory, it works just fine.  Do you know what is missing?

2009-08-11 17:15:33,949 INFO  [STDOUT] 17:15:33,949 User:System INFO  [repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: /alf_data_cluster
2009-08-11 17:15:33,983 INFO  [STDOUT] 17:15:33,983 User:System ERROR [repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] CONTENT INTEGRITY ERROR: System content not found in content store.
2009-08-11 17:15:33,983 INFO  [STDOUT] 17:15:33,983 User:System ERROR [repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to the correct data location.
2009-08-11 17:15:33,988 INFO  [STDOUT] 17:15:33,986 User:System ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to the correct data location.
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.check (ConfigurationChecker.java:312)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.access$000 (ConfigurationChecker.java:72)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker$1.execute (ConfigurationChecker.java:178)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper. doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:322)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper. doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:248)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.onBootstrap (ConfigurationChecker.java:182)
        at org.alfresco.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent (AbstractLifecycleBean.java:62)
        at org.springframework.context.event. SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1.run (SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:77)
        at org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor.execute (SyncTaskExecutor.java:49)
        at org.springframework.context.event. SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent (SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:75)
        at org.springframework.context.support. AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent (AbstractApplicationContext.java:246) ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

[newmember]

I have Alfresco working from a mounted drive.
I moved the entire /opt/Alfresco folder to /mnt/ebs/opt/Alfresco

Then I had to change the alfresco.sh script from ALF_HOME=/opt/Alfresco to ALF_HOME=/mnt/ebs/opt/Alfresco

I also moved my mysql files to /mnt/ebs/mysql  as well.
Now if I have any failure in the server, all my mysql files and alf_data is preserved.
There were more mysql things you have to change, but this just an idea.

Cheers