Nevermind - realized I hadn't configured recent submissions properly. It
works!
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Charlene Chinda Barina <cbar...@uw.edu>wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. I think the last time I tried I may
> have just been impatient with tomcat restarting - it takes quite a while.
>
> Anyway, some progress - I do believe I the mount working, and confirmed
> items showing up when doing ls's on both ends. For some reason, though, no
> items show up in the collection summary page. They show up when browsing by
> author, subject, issue date, etc., but just not by collections.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Charlene
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Peter Dietz <pdiet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Charlene,
>>
>> I would test that /mnt/assetstore, or /dspace/assetstore contains the
>> data that is supposedly mounted there. LS /dspace/assetstore.
>>
>> Your site should work just fine without the assetstore, it will just
>> throw tons of exceptions/errors when the requested asset had an
>> IOException. Check your dspace logs.
>>
>> Also, while ssh'ed into your ec2 instance, install lynx. And try to visit
>> lynx http://localhost:8080/xmlui, and see if the site works there. This
>> might just be basic troubleshooting advice.
>>
>> I'm not sure how bulletproof of a solution that the sshfs will end up
>> being. It seems reasonable.
>>
>> I did a quick price check, and it looks like EBS is $100/TB/month. If
>> someone wrote an S3 gateway, the price of that ranges from $95-$76/TB/month
>> (2nd+ TB of data is cheaper). I guess what I'm saying, is that if using the
>> Amazon storage is in your budget, maybe you'll want to keep the assetstore
>> locally in the cloud, and then some type of "roll-your-own" duracloud, or
>> rsync to keep a copy of your assets on your university's storage array.
>>
>> Peter Dietz
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Charlene Chinda Barina
>> <cbar...@uw.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the ideas - we actually are trying to put the DSpace
>>> installations on AWS, and the files on the university network. As far as I
>>> understand the only way to mount the assetstore in this situation is with
>>> something like sshfs. It didn't seem to take very well - what I did was
>>> mount /dspace/assetstore to the sshfs connection, and the site wasn't
>>> working properly (e.g., site not coming up). I may try it again, though, to
>>> see if I had configured something wrong or if it's more related to just
>>> slow connection/overhead.
>>>
>>> --Charlene
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:58 AM, helix84 <heli...@centrum.sk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Charlene Chinda Barina <cbar...@uw.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hi, per what I understand about bitstream storage, the two options
>>>> are a
>>>> > local directory and via SRB (or iRODS, if I want to go an unsupported
>>>> > route). Is that a correct understanding?
>>>>
>>>> Hi Charlene,
>>>>
>>>> that is correct, those are the two ways DSpace recognizes and
>>>> supports. However, by local storage we mean *anything* that can be
>>>> represented as a local filesystem path (i.e. mounts in unix-like
>>>> systems and whatever the Windows equivalent is - drive mapping, hard
>>>> links, DFS?). So if you already have a NAS or a server at your
>>>> institution that exports directories, you can simply mount them at
>>>> OS-level and point DSpace assetstore to the mounted directory. DSpace
>>>> will work happily with it and won't care where it resides. Same goes
>>>> for mostly anything else you can think of, like SMB/CIFS shares - they
>>>> can be mounted locally and completely transparently to DSpace. The one
>>>> thing I'd recommend against is sshfs as Peter suggested - while this
>>>> is simply another protocol that can be used to mount remote
>>>> directories, I'm pretty sure don't want the overhead of encryption to
>>>> transfer files within your institution. If you had a SAN with iSCSI
>>>> targets that you want to use, you'd connect to it from your DSpace
>>>> system as a local block device, create a filesystem on it and mount it
>>>> within your regular directory structure. From there it's the same
>>>> local FS story again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> ~~helix84
>>>>
>>>> Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette
>>>> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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