I'd consider moving the 90% - 270GB (images) to amazon S3. Joe Danziger has an Amazon S3 Rest wrapper (cfc) that could assist: http://www.ajaxcf.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/9/7/Amazon-S3-REST-Wrapper
and Railo have just an annouced a free S3 extension: http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2010/5/27/Paid-Railo-Extension-Amazon-S3-now-free-moves-to-the-core. and Google has an alternative: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/05/google-storage-for-developers-takes-on-amazon-s3.ars 30GB of code is a lot of code... hopefully someone else will suggest how best to deal with that! > Our production server has over 300 gb of files (90% images and 10% > code). We'd like to a setup a development server that includes all of > those files and thus are considering the following... > > 1. Have our isp copy our production server's wwwroot/sites folder with > its 300 gb of files to an external hard drive and have that drive > shipped to us. > 2. Create an XP box locally and install CF8 developer on it as our > development server. > 3. Copy the contents of that hard drive to the local server's sites > folder. > 4. Create a CF datasource that connects remotely to a duplicate of our > production SQL Server database that is on a dedication SQL Server at > our isp. > 5. Have our developers install CF8 developer and CFBuilder on their > local computers (outside of our offices). > 6. Use CFBuilder RDS to access our development server. > 7. Sync changes to the production server (new image files, etc. ) so > that they are automatically updated on the local server. > 8. After testing, have the developers connect to the production server > and upload their new or changed files to it. > > This also gives us a nice safety backup of our production server's > critical files. > > Does this sound like a good, realistic plan? > > What method would we use to refresh the development server's files > with new or changed files from the production server on a daily > basis? > > Thanks in advance. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334357 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
