Hi, Our DSpace instance has been steadily growing over the years and now has over 18,000 records, all with one or more full text files attached (taking up around 106GB of disk space). We are on DSpace 6.2 and currently only have one assetstore configured.
Whilst we have no issues with dspace operation/performance, my System and Network colleagues are reporting problems when their scheduled backup jobs of the DSpace server are trying to run as they are timing out, which they suspect is due to the large number of files on the server. To resolve this, they have asked me about the possibility of splitting the current dspace filesystem in to a number of smaller filesystems (which they can then back up in parallel, reducing the overall time to back up the dspace server). To that end they have asked about the possibility of splitting the assetstore in to a number of filesystems and creating softlinks to these from the assetstore - e.g. adding 9 new filesystems for clusters of 10 assetstore subdirectories - i.e.: .../dspace/assetstore/10 -> .../assetstores10-19/10 .../dspace/assetstore/11 -> .../assetstores10-19/11 .../dspace/assetstore/12 -> .../assetstores10-19/12 .... ... .../dspace/assetstore/20 -> ../assetstores20-29/20 Has anyone ever done anything like this? Any reasons why that wouldn't work? I can, of course, add another assetstore alongside the existing one, but my understanding is that this would only be used going forwards, and so wouldn't address the large number of files in the current assetstore - unless there is a way to then distribute the existing assetstore across a number of smaller assetstores? Has anyone else in the community had issues like this? And, if so, any (other) suggestions on how best to address the problem? Cheers, Mike Michael White Senior Developer Business Applications and Integrations Information Services 4B19, Cottrell University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA Tel: +44 (0)1786 466877 Email: michael.wh...@stir.ac.uk<mailto:michael.wh...@stir.ac.uk> Web: stir.ac.uk/informationservices<http://www.stir.ac.uk/informationservices> [cid:image001.png@01D66FEC.8FC33BB0]<https://www.facebook.com/stirlinglibrary/>[cid:image002.png@01D66FEC.8FC33BB0]<https://twitter.com/isstirling>[cid:image003.png@01D66FEC.8FC33BB0]<https://www.instagram.com/isstirling/>[cid:image004.png@01D66FEC.8FC33BB0]<https://www.youtube.com/user/infoservicesatstir> [Banner]<https://www.stir.ac.uk/> ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/DB7PR03MB437700F03CBE08ACEA5D54A2D4450%40DB7PR03MB4377.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com.
