Re: Use sharepoint as normal file server

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From: Jan Viegand (news_at_FJERNjanviegand.dk)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 08:15:38 +0200

"Todd Klindt" <usenet@klindt.org> wrote in message
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> Not only is it slower, it takes more disk space. SQL adds data to the
> files, which increases their size. Then there is the disk expense of
> indexing. The added database sizes are then going to start impacting your
> backup and restore windows. Also, restoring files individually is no big
> deal. Restoring an entire database to a different server so that you can
> extract one file is a much bigger deal. WSS also seems to have problems
> with larger files when they are being uploaded. There is some issue with
> memory utilization as the file is being uploaded.
>
...

Thanks. Regarding backup my idea was to backup the indiviual files, not the
full database data. I.e. using a file syncronisation programme, which copy
the files from the mapped drives to the backup media. This should make no
difference from the file server solution.

Space is probably not the biggest problem, hard disk capacity is not so
expensive.

However, then there are the other issues that you point out.

The conclusion might be that it is a bad idea.

Jan

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