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Chris_Bamforth's avatar
16 years ago

Basic Centera Collections Question

Hi I have a very basic question and someone can hopefully re-assure my mind. We have deployed FSA and archived all the DOCs from one file server.  The Vault usage page shows that we have 109...
  • Liam_Finn1's avatar
    16 years ago
    Centera stores files in C-Clips. Each C-Clip represents any number of files up to 10MB so many files end us being stored as one on the Centera.

    If you have a file larger than 10MB the centera splits the file into many parts but if most of your files are less than 10MB then chances are they are stored in many c-clips

    This would explain the difference

    Centera does not see files. It only sees BLOBS (Binary Large OBjects) As far as Centera is concerned it has a pile of Binary objects stored inside it's C-Clips it does not count files