Posts by bigg

  • Bigger Archive

    Hi,


    Are there any limitations to Conquest in terms of archive size?
    I am looking at setting up a 11TB archive on Windows 2008 Server 64x with MySQL Community Server.
    I saw that there is a 2TB limit on NTFS for MySQL(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/full-table.html)
    I have estimated that the database should only reach 25GB based on averages from our current archive.
    Are there any other limitations to be aware of with this type of setup?
    Has anyone else successfully setup a system of this size?
    Any advice will be greatly appreciated.



    Expected System Specs:
    Dell PowerEdge 2950 III

    • Will have OS, MySQL and Conquest Executables
    • 3 * 250 GB Drives in RAID 5 = +/- 450GB
    • 2 * Quad Core Xeon Processor
    • 4-8 GB RAM


    Dell PowerVualt MD3000

    • 13 * 1TB Disks in RAID 5 = +/- 11 TB
    • 2 * 1TB Disks as Hot spares

  • Re-compress data on disk

    I have an old installation of Conquest which I recently upgraded to 1.4.13.
    The images on the disk are currently in un-compressed format and i would like to compress them using jpeg lossless compression.


    Is there any way that I can do this on the local machine?
    I can only seem to figure out how to compress in-coming images, but not the existing images on the disk.


    I am also wanting to migrate from the DBaseIII driver to mySQL is there any documentation on migrating. I have thought of just installing the MySQL driver for conquest and doing a device regen, but there are over 5 million images on the disk and I am scared this may take longer than a weekend to achieve.