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Location: Chicago
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I have a quick couple questions on how files are externalized in StoragePoint.
1. When new files are added to SharePoint, are they stored in the Content DB first and then externalized via the timer job or are they written to the file system directly by the web front end server after a record for the file was added to the content db?
2. Is there any way to directly write to the file system outside of StoragePoint and have StoragePoint create the record in the content db? I've been tasked to enable 2GB file uploads over the internet to our SharePoint farm. We have StoragePoint already but I am concerned about the perormance of my IIS servers and starving my .NET thread pools while they handle these large file uploads. I would like to implement a file upload environmentoutside of SharePoint for large files but still have them known to SharePoint/StoragePoint. I know I could do this and have the files stored on a file server and have SharePoint index them but this is not what the business wants. They want the files inside SharePoint.
Thanks
Brian
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Joined: 6/14/2009
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Hi Brian,
Responses to your questions are as follows:
1. With and EBS or RBS provider plugged in (...we support both BLOB Remoting methods in StoragePoint) the BLOBs never get into the database, they are written immediately to the configured endpoints (BLOB store locations). There is an externalization timer job available to externalize content that is already in your environment before implementing StoragePoint.
2. With our 3.0 release (RTM this Tuesday 6/15), Yes. We expose an API that you can call with the location of an external file that returns a StoragePoint BLOB Reference. That API does not create the item in SharePoint, so you would still need to create a list/library item in SharePoint with that BLOB Reference as the content payload. I believe the API doc has sample code for this scenario. If not, we can easily supply you with some.
Thanks,
Rob
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