RE: What is recommended process for large binary files?

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	We routinely store 50 to 80 MB files in Vault (installers, Power
Point presentations, etc) without issue.  Heck our entire distribution
CD comes straight out of vault as one "Get Latest Version".  It works
great for this stuff.  The only catch is the weekly backup of the 12GB
(and growing) SQL database but even that is no problem.

Matt Sheats
HYTEC, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan
Schreiber
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:56 PM
To: Clayton Dool; Vault-List (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [vault-list] What is recommended process for large binary
files?

Vault should be able to handle 20MB binary files without much problem.
They will of course take longer to compute deltas on, and longer to
retrieve.

The only issues I can think of would be:

1. If you use MSDE instead of SQL, you'll run up against the 2GB limit
faster this way.
2. Both the client and server RAM usage will go up as you handle large
files.  IIS seems to like to grab RAM for an entire file it is uploading
or downloading.  A 20MB file shouldn't be a problem for this, but
thought it should be mentioned.  Of course, once you do the Get the
first time, the rest of the Gets are deltas, so it won't be transfering
nearly as much data.
Also, on the client, it does store a baseline version, so you'll be
storing
2 copies of the file.

-Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Clayton=20
> Dool
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:48 PM
> To: Vault-List (E-mail)
> Subject: [vault-list] What is recommended process for large binary=20
> files?
>
>
> We have several large binary files (20 mb each) that we currently have

> in vault.  These are data files that are released with our product. =20
> What is the recommended process for dealing with large files?  Keep=20
> them in vault, checking in changes as minimal as possible between
releases (branching)?
> Keep them separate in a folder and manually mark them per release?
>
>
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