This topic describes how to install and configure SkyVault S3 Connector as an alternative
content store.
Important: The SkyVault S3 Connector module can be applied to SkyVault Enterprise
4.1.1 or later. It requires a SkyVault instance running on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud
(EC2), connected to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (SSS). Other devices or services that
advertise as being S3 compatible have not been tested and are therefore not
supported.
Using a SkyVault Module Package, the connector supplies a new content store which replaces the
default file system-based implementation for the standard and deleted content stores. The content
store implementation is responsible for reading and writing content streams using the S3 API,
however, in order to improve performance a local Caching Content Store is used which uses the
local disk to cache recently-used content items.
Note: By default the module configures the caching content store to use a maximum of 50 GB of
disk, with no limit on individual file sizes.
The SkyVault S3 Connector uses a single S3 bucket and all content is stored in that bucket
within one of the following directories:
<bucket-root>/contentstore for the main content store <bucket-root>/contentstore.deleted for the 'deleted' content store
Note:
Always install the S3 connector cleanly. Upgrades from a local content store to S3 are not supported, and will corrupt the SkyVault repository.