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Moving files to the second volume - Is it done automatically or manually?

asked on February 11, 2016 Show version history

Hi all,

I have a customer who has 2 volumes.

I want to know if the second volume will automatically be taking over when the first one is filled up or it should be done manually. Also, is there a limit on remaining free space on the first volume that we should kept prior to moving to the second volume?

Thanks to advise.

Kind Regards,

Sheila

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replied on February 12, 2016 Show version history

I'm still unclear if they are the SAME logical volume or two different ones. If they are logical children of the same parent volume, the rollover will happen automatically when the first volume reaches the provided size limit (or at the specified time period, if it's set up that way). The user wouldn't need to do anything and both would appear as the same volume to them - new files would simply go into the second one. If they are different volumes, there is no inherent rollover between them.

Regardless, changing the path (or any of the properties) of the parent logical volume will impact the defaults when the next rollover child is created. So if you wanted to ensure that the next volume will be on a different location, you can change the path now and it will be created there. Of course, if it's the physical volume, it will actually try to move the existing documents there right now, so make sure you're setting it on the logical parent. 

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replied on February 11, 2016 Show version history

If your volumes are set up as logical volumes then it will happen automatically. However if they are two completely separate volumes with no connection between the two, it will happen manually. Please see https://www.laserfiche.com/support/webhelp/Laserfiche/10/en-US/administration/#../Subsystems/LFAdmin/Content/Volume_Rollover.htm and its child pages for more information. 

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replied on February 12, 2016

Hi,

The customer has two logical volumes namely VOLUME_0 and VOLUME_1 which are on an application server. How will the rollover to VOLUME_1 be done? Note that the default volume has only 40GB free space left. Thanks to advise.

 

Kind Regards,

Sheila

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replied on February 14, 2016

Hi Justin,

We have two separate volumes, each volume is on a different Windows drive. Since the user is having a hard disk space issue on the first volume (i.e. 40 GB of hard-disk space is left on the Windows drive holding the first volume).

Do you mean that for different volumes (i.e. the current configuration of volumes set at user's place), the user will have to map the path of the second volume(i.e. VOLUME_1) in LF Admin Console and change the default volume to the second volume from the Repositories node in LF Client? Will the users be able to access the documents found in the VOLUME_0 volume in LF Client and will the files be read-only?

Please clarify as it seems to me that the volume rollover is not being automatically done as it is a hard-disk space limitation.

Please refer to attached screenshot. In case that the size of the first volume(i.e. VOLUME_0) has reached its 20480 MB and the rollover schedule was selected, all new files uploaded to Laserfiche Client will just get rolled over to a new sub-physical volume folders WITHIN the same logical VOLUME_0 volume and it will never move to VOLUME_1. For instance, new files will move in VOLUME_0_01 and after a time schedule set up, new files will move in VOLUME_0_02 etc. Thanks to confirm if my understanding is correct.

My next question now is suppose the size limit of the physical volume has reached its 20480 MB, then should a new volume be created? Please advise me on the logic for physical volumes as it has not been detailed in the guide.

volume configuration.jpg
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replied on May 12, 2016

Hi All,

I've created a new logical volume as the logical partition of the server was full. 

The new logical volume was referred to a new windows partition. However, once the disk space got full, it's not switching to the new logical volume of Laserfiche. Any help would be appreciated. 

Thanks!

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replied on May 12, 2016

Please don't post the same thing in multiple threads. Moving files to a child of the same logical volume is done automatically. Moving files to a completely different logical volume is not.

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replied on May 12, 2016

Is there a way to refer the repository to a new logical volume on to a different windows partition without affecting the previous files? 

 

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replied on May 4

Hi.

Is there a way to move the files which are stored in Laserfiche to another volume in a different server? If yes, please explain.

 

Thanks

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