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Attachments in DB - #1039 Response

Added by John Reynolds over 16 years ago

I wanted to comment on the feature #1039 for the .7 release.

I'm not a big fan of image/binary storage in the db for attachments - I'd at least like to be given the option to continue to store attachments outside the database.

Reasons:
  • I can back up the attachments on a different schedule than the database.
  • The volume of our attachments may become large over time - I can partition this off to a SAN attached drive for greater storage.
  • If the database becomes inaccessible, I can still retrieve my attachments easily.
  • If I want to migrate to another type of system in the future, I don't have to figure out how to gather up all the attachments from the database.
  • Database agnostic - perhaps sometime in the future I'll want to convert over to postgresql instead.

Just a few reasons to continue to provide external file support. I'm not opposed to having an option to store inside the database, but would really not be a fan of that being the only option.

Thanks,

John


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RE: Attachments in DB - #1039 Response - Added by Thomas Löber over 16 years ago

One more reason:

When making daily backups of the Redmine data using rsync with the "--link-dest" option it's beneficial to have the attachments stored as separate files because once saved on disk the files will never change and can be backed up efficiently.

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