Hey, i'm working on a backend for some music studio. The backend needs to handle large file uploads (~10gig). I have found out that there are several issues and possible solutions. (I'm sorry that this isn't directly BOA related but a possible solution would effect the webserver stack more than drupal itself)

- drupal can't manage files with 2gig+ (which is really lame but easy to fix) #1815886: Drupal core cannot manage files larger than 4 GB
- php.ini and nginx.conf would need some adjustments when using php / flash / html5 upload stuff (jquery_upload, swf_upload, plupload etc). -> old browsers have a big chance to fail
- another solution would be running jupload which is java and simply runs an FTP client in the background. It would need a patch because it only support old school unencrypted FTP transfer -> java applet loading is not user friendly
- filedepot looks cool but a 1500$ is out of the budget

Did anyone managed to do this in the past?

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omega8cc’s picture

omega8cc CreditAttribution: omega8cc commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

I think that this kind of question should be posted in the BOA group. Personally I think you don't want to use web based uploads for such large files and you need to find different method (like FTP behind the scenes etc.)

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muschpusch CreditAttribution: muschpusch commented

Agree. I posted it over there. Thanks for your personal opinion :) Do you know different "FTP-behind-the-scenes" solutions. Hint: http://groups.drupal.org/node/289593