Rob D’Oria, father of StoragePoint, has written a very comprehensive review of the new storage “guidance” from Microsoft with regard to the limits on ContentDB size when using RBSEBS. It is a very long post, but completely worth reading from start to finish.
Did anyone pass out? Anyone hyper-ventilating? Anyone soil themselves? I didn’t think so. That’s the process in all of its complicated ugliness. In this scenario the worst thing you end up with is some orphaned BLOBs…you have some extra BLOBs in the BLOB store back-up that are not reflected in the content DB backup because it was taken first. Upon restoring these datasets the extra BLOBs are orphaned, but they will be garbage-collected if the EBS/RBS solution supports it.
And, oh by the way, this is your worst case scenario.
Rob’s opinions in his post of ISVs are his own. I may or may not agree with everything he says, so be sure to rub a couple of brain cells together and form your own opinions.
