Data Content management in KM

Question

Hi All,
  I would like to know how the following as we are planning to implement this strategey for one of our clients who has huge volume of data to be stored,
1.  Maximum Storage capacity of KM server
2.  Data content management/Data Archiving
Rgds,

Answer 1

Hi,
   General speaking, you can use a database or file system as repository.
   When you have huge volumen of data (documents) is not suitable use database due to perfomance issue. My advice is use fsdb (file system -data base) the information is stored in fs and the metadata properties so on..in db.
   In this way you have not think about problem related to use a database (reorganization..). Only you define a file system which will be pointed by km repository definition. Obviously, the file server must have enought stora but this is not problem to KM.
   Regarding to data archiving, here you can think in two posibilities, one of them is use lifetime (Enabling time-dependent publishing allows you to determine the lifetime of the documents).
The other is move documents by created date.
DBFS:
Metadata and folders are stored in the database, but documents are stored in the file system (DBFS)
This mode is quicker than the database mode, and allows you easier control over the size of the database (since documents are stored in the file system).
FSDB:
Metadata is stored in the database, but folders and documents are stored in the file system (FSDB)
In this mode, the file system is predominant. If files are removed from or added to the file system, the database is updated automatically. The automatic update can be switched off in the configuration of the repository manager using the parameter Disable Automatic FSDB Synchronization.
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Patricio.