Content Binary Replication

[unknown-user]

Hi,

We have a DR env to which we replicate the DB and File system. The file system replication is done through lsyncd and I believe the lsyncd program is configured to monitor the root /contentstore directory. Any changes to the files will be replicated instantaneously to DR. Since it monitors the root contentstore directory (which includes content from the year 2010, 2011 & 2012), it puts the lsyncd program on heavy load. We are thinking of changing the lsyncd config to monitor only the current year's binaries.

The question is - Is there any scenario in Alfresco where a content binary file gets "updated"? For e.g - a content that got created in 2010 is modified, will it modify the actual binary file that is stored in /contentstore/2010/<month>/<day>/<hour>/<min>/<sec> or will it create a new binary file under /contentstore/2012/<month>/<day>/<hour>/<min>/<sec>? We just want to make sure that reducing the scope of lsyncd to monitor only the current year's directory wont break anything.

Thanks

[mrogers]

No - content is never updated.

[unknown-user]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I was doing some test and it looks like when a document is edited, it moves the binaries from original directory to a new directory that is created based on the latest time stamp. If we exclude 2010 & 2011 directories from replication, wont it create an issue in this scenario?

[mrogers]

No content is not moved except Once it's no longer referenced,  in which case it's moved to contentstore.deleted.

You may (or may not). Want to consider delete from your replica.