Windchill System Administrator's Guide
Windchill System Administrator's Guide
Windchill System Administrator's Guide
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Overview of Storing and Moving Data in <strong>Windchill</strong><br />
<strong>Windchill</strong> offers several methods to increase the accessibility of data. The<br />
following brief summaries present the key features of these methods:<br />
• External File Vaulting -- File Vaulting allows you to store <strong>Windchill</strong> data<br />
outside the <strong>Windchill</strong> database in logical containers called vaults, each of<br />
which can refer to multiple physical memory locations called folders.<br />
Multiple hosts can work together in file vaulting to form sites or clusters. You<br />
can create rules to upload specified data into vaults and folders. File Vaulting<br />
reduces the time for uploading and downloading data, and allows <strong>Windchill</strong><br />
data access control, indexing, and notification policies for <strong>Windchill</strong> domains,<br />
while providing a transparent interface for the user. This chapter provides<br />
detailed information about file vaulting. You can accomplish many of the<br />
operations explained in this chapter through a command line interface that is<br />
explained in another chapter, Configuring External File Vaulting or<br />
Replication With FvLoader.<br />
• Content Replication -- <strong>Windchill</strong> Content Replication allows you to compose<br />
rules that copy specified data from file vaults or <strong>Windchill</strong> databases to more<br />
rapidly accessible vaults known as replica vaults. Sites in Content Replication<br />
are of two types: replica sites to store data for rapid access and master sites<br />
which send data to replica sites. One site can play both roles. Security<br />
measures ensure that the data on replica sites is genuine. The data sent to<br />
replica sites does not include metadata. See the chapterAdministering Content<br />
Replication later in this guide for detailed information about Content<br />
Replication.<br />
• Export and Import -- <strong>Windchill</strong> Import and Export functions facilitate the<br />
exchange of content and metadata between <strong>Windchill</strong> sites and ProjectLink<br />
portals. <strong>Windchill</strong> Import and Export are available to software developers<br />
through an API. The <strong>Windchill</strong> user can access export functions to package in<br />
JAR files the data in the following top-level <strong>Windchill</strong> objects: folders,<br />
product structures, and documents. The <strong>Windchill</strong> user can import data from<br />
the JAR files produced by the export functions and place the data in local<br />
<strong>Windchill</strong>, free of change controls. See the chapter <strong>Windchill</strong> Import and<br />
Export later in this guide for detailed information about <strong>Windchill</strong> Export and<br />
Import.<br />
Overview of External File Vaults<br />
When a <strong>Windchill</strong> user creates information, such as a part or a document, content<br />
files can be associated with that object. Using file vaulting, you can specify that,<br />
for a particular type of object in a specific life cycle state, content files should be<br />
stored in a logical container called a vault on a system within your network, rather<br />
than in the <strong>Windchill</strong> database.<br />
Each file vault contains folders which correspond to physical storage locations<br />
(for example, directories) on the host system. Based on the vaulting policy you<br />
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