On Monday 15 October 2001 03:59 pm, Gary Algier allegedly wrote:
I have had zope running here for a few days now to investigate using it as a place for the whole company to be able to put documents that they want to share with the rest. This will be a lot of files with very few changes each day and I realize now that everything is stored in all one file -- var/data.fs. So, the questions become:
1) How will this impact my backups? As I see it, eventually this file will become huge and I will be saving it to the backup tape every day. How can I only save the changes? Is there a way to get it to keep objects of type "File" external?
There is the external file product at: http://www.zope.org/Members/MacGregor/ExtFile
2) What do I do to restore only part of it? Often I get people that say they need something restored from several days ago because thay made a mistake. How can I handle this with everything in one file?
You don't have to worry about that. You can undo changes from within Zope. Zope keeps old versions of thing until you pack the database. You can tell it to keep versions newer than a certain number of days when you pack as well.
3) Should I be using a different product, like Apache + mod_dav and leave zope for more dynamic content? Apache does not have the integrated access management. People would need to edit the .htaccess files manually.
For a ready-made Zope library check out: http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/DocumentLibrary hth, /---------------------------------------------------\ Casey Duncan, Sr. Web Developer National Legal Aid and Defender Association c.duncan@nlada.org \---------------------------------------------------/