Questions tagged [blobstorage]
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Windows Azure Storage Certificate Expired
The certificate for our Azure blob storage expired today. This is not a certificate provided by us but provided by Microsoft as show in the picture below. How does one go about fixing this? I have tried searching for a solution but found nothing.…

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Azure Blob 400 Bad request on Creation of container
I'm developing an ASP.Net MVC 4 app and I'm using Azure Blob to store the images that my users are going to upload. I have the following code:
var storageAccount =…

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Azure Blob storage vs Azure Drive
I am looking at moving to Windows Azure rather than typical hosting however I'm unsure how best to store images. After searching I've found that there are 2 possible solutions - Blob storage or Azure drive.
I have looked into Blob storage and…

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How to list subdirectories in Azure blob storage
MS has announced directory like blob storage, and I'm trying to use it like directories.
Having save some blobs by…

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"The specified block list is invalid" while uploading blobs in parallel
I've a (fairly large) Azure application that uploads (fairly large) files in parallel to Azure blob storage.
In a few percent of uploads I get an exception:
The specified block list is invalid.
System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an…

Jeremy McGee
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Batch Uploading Huge Sets of Images to Azure Blob Storage
I have about 110,000 images of various formats (jpg, png and gif) and sizes (2-40KB) stored locally on my hard drive. I need to upload them to Azure Blob Storage. While doing this, I need to set some metadata and the blob's ContentType, but…

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Azure CloudAppendBlob errors with concurrent access
My understanding was that the Azure CloudAppendBlob was safe from concurrency issues as you can only append to this blob storage and it does not need to compare E-tags. As stated by this post:…

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Delete folder(s) inside Azure Blob storage container
I have a container named "pictures", and have some folders named "Folder1", "Folder2" inside of it. So files of my blob will be addressed like this "http://optimus.blob.core.windows.net/pictures/Folder1/IMG123.png". Using the below C# code to delete…

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ERROR: The specifed resource name contains invalid characters. ErrorCode: InvalidResourceName
ERROR: The specifed resource name contains invalid characters. ErrorCode: InvalidResourceName
2019-10-31T10:28:17.4678189Z The specifed resource name contains…
InvalidResourceName

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What is the correct way to backup ZODB blobs?
I am using plone.app.blob to store large ZODB objects in a blobstorage directory. This reduces size pressure on Data.fs but I have not been able to find any advice on backing up this data.
I am already backing up Data.fs by pointing a network backup…

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Why do I get org.hibernate.HibernateException: IOException occurred reading a binary value
I found this exception in my logs I have never seen it before, Im using Hibernate 4.1.7
Does this indicate that my database is corrupted , or this a bug in Hibernate. I found a reference to this error at…

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How to use SharedAccessSignature to access blobs
I am trying to access a blob stored in a private container in Windows Azure. The container has a Shared Access Signature but when I try
to access the blob I get a StorgeClientException "Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the…

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Storing images in DB vs in Folder Structure
I understand it is possible to store images in Databases as Binary large objects. But I used to see in some forum web applications that they are stored as flat files in web server machine and retrieved when needed.
What is the advantage and…

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Don't Overwrite Azure Blob Storage
I have a method which adds files to a Azure Blob Storage the problem is i'm trying to specify a condition in which it DOES NOT overwrite the blob but simply adds to it. I am trying to use the parameter access condition however VS is saying this…

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Write Stream async to Azure BlobStorage
I'm rewriting my C# code to use Azure Blob storage instead of filesystem. So far no problems rewriting code for normal fileoperations. But I have some code that uses async write from a stream:
using (var stream = await…

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