content question for setting up new publish node in AEM6 or cq5

[shuclu]

hi i am setting up new servers for author and  publish node, i packaged up all the existing code/content and unpacked them in the author node. 

my question is for the content in publish node, should i upload and unpack the content package like how i did it in the author node or should i activate content from the author node? 

the content package is quite big, it's around 6G with some images and pdf files. 

thanks

shu

[Sham_HC · Accepted solution]

Hi Shu,

Both should work if proper configuration is set. I would go with installing on publish directly by placing under install directory rather than using replication or package manager. Do you have video in it & why did package grow so much for first setup. 

Thanks,

Sham

[shuclu]

thank you! it's been very helpful, I didn't know that we can do content activation that way. the package didn't grow it's just part of the content which has way too many files.