Scalable File Replication and Web-based Access

A system comprising:

• one or more replication front ends individual ones of which being associated with a file replication engine that is configured to provide state-based file replication;
• at least one scalable file store for storing file data in a manner that does not require full file system semantics;
• and
• at least one scalable metadata store for storing associated file metadata.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, with a replication entity, a staged file;
• sending, to a storage access node, a write request for the staged file;
• sending the staged file to a scalable binary large object (blob) store;
• receiving, from the blob store, a locator token for the staged file;
• sending, to the storage access node, a metadata write request to write replication metadata, file system metadata for the staged file, and the locator token;
• forwarding the metadata write request to a scalable metadata store;
• and
• committing said metadata write request on said scalable metadata store.