best way to import a lot of contents to alfresco

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anurak

Hi,

If i have a lot of content files, let say a 1,000,000 files. What is the best way to import them to alfresco? Can alfresco(opensource version) handler that number of file if i import them in one space and what is a hardwere specification should be?

Thanks in advance,
anurak

kevinr

Alfresco supports an Import/Export file format. You could either use the command line toos or code a program to import a huge number of files:
http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Export_and_Import
Or you can simply use the built-in Alfresco FTP server to import the files.

We have loaded over 5,000,000 documents into Alfresco with no problems. Hardware is not a problem, you just need enough disk space to store all your documents. Obviously a fast RAID disk setup would be desirable!

You probably won't get great performance by adding all 1,000,000 documents to a single parent folder - and the default web-application we provide won't perform well if you try to browse a single folder of 1,000,000 documents (what app would! ). This sounds like a specific use-case of a repository - what exactly are you trying to do?

Thanks,

Kevin