GoogleSystemStorage
===================


About GoogleSystemStorage
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GoogleSystemStorage (GSS) is an extension of FileSystemStorage (FSS).

GSS transparently to the user, saves the document types supported by the Google Docs service
on the Google servers, while storing all the other files in the local filesystem.

GSS permits Plone users to access their files from both the Plone application and their 
Google Docs account. 

In addition, GSS permits to overcome the problem of ZODB size growth, and the consequent 
performance penalties, when many files with large size are used.


Copyright and license
---------------------

Copyright (c) 2009 Federica D'Elia

This software is subject to the provisions of the GNU General Public License,
Version 2.0 (GPL).  A copy of the GPL should accompany this distribution.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES ARE DISCLAIMED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, AGAINST INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE

See the `LICENSE` file that comes with this product.


Requirements
------------

FileSystemStorage, GoogleAuthentication and gdata-1.3.0
must be correctly installed.


Installation
------------

With buildout
-------------

This example speaks of itself::

  [buildout]
  parts =
      ...
      fss
  
  ...
  
  eggs =
    ...
    collective.googlesystemstorage
    collective.googleauthentication
    iw.recipe.fss
    iw.fss
    ...
  
  ...
  
  zcml =
      ...
      collective.googlesystemstorage
      collective.googleauthentication
      iw.fss
      iw.fss-meta
  
  ...
  
  [fss]
  recipe = iw.recipe.fss
  zope-instances =
       ${instance:location}
  
  storages =
      global / flat
      portale /portale site1 ${buildout:directory}/var/portale_fss_storage ${buildout:directory}/var/portale_fss_backup


Credits
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Main developer: D'Elia Federica <federica.delia@redturtle.it>
