Support for offline storage

[Stephen Crawley]

Imagine that I am building a Mediaflux installation that is intended to provide long-term archival storage for a heterogeneous collection of assets.  Suppose that I have the following constaints:

• I don't have anywhere like enough online storage for my long-term needs.  So I need to be able to use offline storage.
  
• I don't have access to an SGI DMF hierarchical storage system from my installation.
• Amazon S3 is too expensive for me.

What (other) options do I have for integrating offline storage into my installation?  Would it possible for me to implement a new Mediaflux store type that (for example) stored files into a NeCTAR Object Store (Swift - http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/)?  What about a store type that (for example) involved copying files or archives to/from remote locations using scp or webDAV?

Are there (or could there be) APIs that I could use to develop my own plugin store types?

Or is there a different way of doing this that I have overlooked?

[Jason Lohrey]

We have APIs for content stores that we have not (yet) made public. We should do — for no specific reason other than we have not got around to it. We use those APIs to create our own storage drivers. 

We should make a public/plugin API so you can create your own storage driver.

The API is very, very simple.

You could, if you like be a “guinea pig” for such a public content store API.

Or is there a different way of doing this that I have overlooked?

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