I have heard that Sharepoint could be the answer to a loosely managed, fast growing file share. I was asked to try and find a solution for a file share which currently houses millions of files, and terabytes of data using Sharepoint. I see a number of huge challenges with this exercise if we use Sharepoint, and causing many questions.Â
Should we import the documents into the database, should we use RBS, should the files stay on the file share and just import metadata or references? How would that happen? What type of storage, how would you set up the content databases? Would you use multiple drives? How will this effect backups? Also what is the best way to migrate 10s of millions of files?Â
We would probably want to eliminate duplicates, keep versions, and store meta-data for easy searching.
Does anyone have any experience, ideas or suggestions regarding this type of process being managed in Sharepoint? Are there any third party applications that make sense? Has anyone actually done something like this before.
Thanks in advance for your help.Â
Vikki McCormick
The Biggest Benefits will be easy to Navigate the Content and Permissions.
The benefits i can say is versoning.. People will not to save file as V1,v2,..vn. They will have latest version on. if they want to go to older version they can get it straight away through version history.
They can share the document. they dont have to attach the file everything they need to just send the link and it will work staight away.
With the SharePoint 2013 using webapps they can co-author. So People can work on the same file at a same time and you can set the versions.Also they dont need to check in check out.
Trust me about the recovery of file. its much more easier to recover the file in SharePoint then File Share.Â
And Search is the BIG Plus Point Compare to File Share.
These are the few Benefits….
