I have a client who has 2 remote offices, that both use the Revit application for day to day work (http://www.autodesk.com/products/revit-family/overview). The file types that Revit creates are .rvt files. My understanding is that each .rvt
file is a single file relational database. These files can get very large (as large as 500 MB) and the client has to use their existing WAN link to transfer these files. I was thinking about setting up a second file server at the remote site and
implementing DFS, so that only changes to the files would be replicated (using the RDC algorithm).
My question is: would the RDC algorithm actually work for the .rvt files? I'm concerned that the RDC algorithm would not create any replication savings with a file that is essentially an "all in one relational database". Does anybody have any thoughts on this?
My question is: would the RDC algorithm actually work for the .rvt files? I'm concerned that the RDC algorithm would not create any replication savings with a file that is essentially an "all in one relational database". Does anybody have any thoughts on this?