Stored Documents

[tonyg]

Hi,

As you will see from this question I am very new to this and have only just installed Alfresco. I have the software installed on SLES11 64bit. It seems to be up and running happily now, and i have created users and added a few documents. Could someone tell me where on this platform are the user areas and documents held?  If it is locally then I will need to know if a can set a shared area on another server to store these.

Thanks

[zaizi]

Alfresco stores content in folder area it manages. This is configured in alfresco-global.properties. By default it will point to ~/alf_data. I.e. a directory called alf_data under the installation directory.

This directory and contents is managed by Alfresco. You should not access with any other apps. For backup see the wiki: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore.

You can host this directory on another server. However, you'll need to ensure the access is fast. Just mount the directory on the server with Alfresco and change the alf.dir property to point to the new path.

Ainga

[tonyg]

Many thanks Zaizi, that answers my question perfectly.