Moodle 3.3, Object Storage File System Plugin: https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_objectfs
Hi All,
Hoping to get a little help from the community before escalating this to the developers.
We have a requirement to retain previous courses and modules for the duration of Degree programmes, 4 years. This obviously adds overhead to our VPS storage requirements. I came across this plugin while exploring alternatives to increasing expensive server storage. It leverages inexpensive external Object storage from AWS S3 and Azure Blobs to replicate moodle files externally while maintaining normal file access.
Now it works perfectly, to a point. While in mirror mode there are no issues but once you set the plugin to start deleting local files and using the remote copies directly from S3 or Azure it loses access to the files. Now the files are definitely on the remote object storage and are even visible in the System Repository, but they are just not accessible.
For instance trying to view or download a PDF will throw:
"Error Failed to load PDF document" message. The window header will display the file path and the PDF reader window shows the document title.
Attempting to download a file will throw:
my-moodle.net unexpectedly closed the connection.
Really hoping that somebody has had something similar happen or understands the core issue better than I do (not hard). Cannot find much on the issue. The plugin is perfect otherwise and I would really like to get it working.
All ideas gratefully accepted.
Regards
Harry