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In-Place bulk import

In-place import is available in SkyVault Enterprise only. It imports files that already exist within the repository content store. As no copying is required, this can result in a significant performance improvement.

Three assumptions are made when importing content in-place.

  • The content is already at its initial repository location prior to import, and it will be not be moved during the import.
  • The in-place content must be within the tree structure of a registered content store, as defined by either:
    • the default fileContentStore
    • a file system-based store defined by the content store selector
  • The content structure is well distributed, for example:
    • The default fileContentStore distributes content based on the import date (year/month/day/hour/minute). This avoids having thousands of file under the same root, which is inefficient both for the file system and for computing parent associations in SkyVault.
    • It is recommended you keep immediate children to a few thousands maximum.
    • To choose an efficient distribution scheme, you should know that, when m files are randomly distributed into n leaf folders, when m >> n log n the statistical maximum load of a leaf is m/n + O( sqrt((m log n)/n)).

In addition, in-place bulk import provides support for Managing the content store. This allows you to select under which store the content to import is to be found.