Feeds is the object-routing mechanism in the Swarm storage cluster that uses intermittent channel connections to distribute data to these targets:
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Swarm supports three types of feeds for implementation:
Metadata Search (recommended, and required for Content Gateway and UI) provides real-time metadata indexing and ad-hoc search capabilities within Swarm by name or metadata. The Elasticsearch service collects the metadata for each object and updates the search database in your Swarm network. When you create a new object, domain, or bucket, the service collects only the metadata and not the actual content.
See Search Feeds.Remote Replication enables object replication directly to an external storage cluster without API intervention. When Swarm recognizes new or updated objects, it copies these objects to an internal queue. At specific intervals based on the
retryWaitattribute settings, the plug-in moves the queued objects to the targeted cluster.
See Replication Feeds.S3 Backup provides off-premises Swarm disaster recovery from an S3 cloud service. It allows backup and selective restoration of some or all of your Swarm cluster contents.
See S3 Backup Feeds.
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