Moving Files to external Storage

[Darktemptation.com]

In the business I have successfully set up RS and we have put in some
data, just to recognize that we need external storage, because there
are a lot of media files around...

So now the plan is to extend RS with external storage and transfer all
the files (about 80GB) to the external storage. I have tried to find
out how good this would work, but not found any answer yet.

How do I manage this?
I think I have first to set up the external storage and configure it.
And then? How do I transfer the files from internal (server storage)
to the new external storage?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks a lot.

[Stefan Wild]

Hi,

you just have to transfer the "filestore" folder to the external
storage. After that, either set a symbolic link (on Unix/Linux OS)
named "filestore" to the external storage or in config.php:

# Uncomment and set next two lines to configure storage locations (to
use another server for file storage)
#$storagedir="/path/to/filestore"; # Where to put the media files. Can
be absolute (/var/www/blah/blah) or relative to the installation.
Note: no trailing slash
#$storageurl="http://my.storage.server/filestore"; # Where the
storagedir is available. Can be absolute (http://files.example.com) or
relative to the installation. Note: no trailing slash

Regards,
Stefan

[Darktemptation.com]

Dear Stefan

Thanks for your help.

Unfortunately we are working in a Windows Environment with a WAMP-
Stack. But nevertheless, I have managed to make a Symbolic Link as
well on Windows.
On my little test environment everything went well and I know now how
to transfer to an external storage.

Regards
Pascal