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say i have a sharepoint server, and i have people uploading their documents to the server, as default, sharepoint will convert the file to binary and store it in wscontent database. i can turn that off and allow the document to be uploaded into a file server. My question is what is the best approach to do this? do i let the database grow so big or do i let them upload the documents to file server. what is the right way or most common or most efficient way to do this? thanks
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reading this article i noticed on the backup part where he said if RBS provider support Native SQL BLOB, the BLOB will be in the backup as well. So does this mean that if i use FileStream BLOB, i don't have to include BLOB in the database backup?
Hi,
as long as you are using SharePoint backup, the content will be backup regardless if the content is in the database or remotely.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/opal/archive/2010/03/24/faq-sharepoint-2010-remote-blob-storage-rbs.aspx

RBS planing:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff628583.aspx

And another interesting whitepaper:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14726

BTW, RBS can only store on local drives, not on SMB shares.

HTH
Rainer
yeah i saw. but if your server was a vm wouldn't c drive a san?