Joe Kramer wrote:
Hi, I need to store a lot of large files (thousands of 10-100 MB files) uploaded through my web application and I find that storing them in database as bytea field is not practical for backup purposes. My database has full backup performed every 12 hours and backup is encrypted and copied to server on another continent. Having all the heavy binary data in database will make backups impossible. So I am thinking of having a table just for metadata and file id sequence and storing the file on file system:
Wasn't one of the particle accelerator establishments using PostgreSQL in this way for their raw data?
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