In This article I am describing about how to install and configure Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) with the FILESTREAM provider on a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database server that supports a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 system. RBS is typically recommended in the case where the content databases are 4 gigabytes (GB) or larger. SharePoint stores the files (or the blobs) in content database. The advantage of that approach is it simplifies the backup and restores process. We can backup a site collection related data in one file. The disadvantage is the database size can be enormous if Site contains large number of files. It may a critical problem if you use SQL Server Express Edition which has a limitation in database file size. RBS is a library API set that is incorporated as an add-on feature pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express. RBS is designed to move the storage of binary large objects (BLOBs) from database servers to commodity storage solutions. RBS ships with the RBS FILESTREAM provider, which uses the RBS APIs to store BLOBs. We can configure SharePoint to stores the blob in the file system, instead of in database by possible by leveraging FILESTREAM feature of SQL Server 2008 and Remote BLOB Storage (RBS). With SharePoint 2010, the Remote Blob Storage (RBS) functionality allows putting documents into the database file system instead of the database itself. Each content database is located in a specific section of the file system where all the documents are stored. Enable File Stream in SQL Server
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