Microsoft SQL Server Remote Blob Storage Samples

New Post: No provider of type found. Check the server configuration or install the provider on the client.

vpurohit — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:04:47 GMT

Hi,

The RBS.msi released with SQL Server 2012 already has the fix for .Net 4.0 so that should work in your case. You can download it from here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35580

Please let us know if you still face issues with this version of RBS.

Thanks,
VIjendra.

New Post: No provider of type found. Check the server configuration or install the provider on the client.

champikag — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:58:10 GMT

Hi,

I wish to use "Microsoft SQL Server Remote Blob" with "FILESTREAM" provider. I installed the "RBS.msi" configured server as guided.

Then I downloaded and executed the Storage Sample (I changed .Net framework to 4.0). When I tries to Write the BLOB to file system I got following error.

No provider of type <Filestream> found. Check the server configuration or install the provider on the client.

After doing some researches in Goggle I found following article.

https://sqlrbs.codeplex.com/discussions/279089

Based on that I changed the .Net framework to 3.5 (from 4.0) and it executed without any issue.

My Question is, is there is fix for .Net framework 4.0? (Any update or something..) My application is on the .Net framework 4.0 and I cant change that to 3.5

Please help..

Thanks in Advance...
Champika

New Post: SharePoint 2013 and extra data within BLOB files

daemonoid — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:07:02 GMT

Sorry for the late update on this...

After a lot of investigation on this issue and discussions with MS I found that it is indeed related to data shredding and it is cobalt data added by MS. I have found a high (ish) level blog post about the issues relating to RBS in combination with shredded storage and how the two can be used effectively together.

http://www.stealth-soft.com/About_Us/Sharepoint-2013---Data-Shredding-and-Remote-Blob-Storage--RBS-_1_76.html

New Post: Retrieve BlobStoreName

daemonoid — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:01:56 GMT

This is the behaviour I see also. It appears that the ConfigItemLists are not fully populated and so this info is simply not available.

New Post: Retrieve BlobStoreName

hbrigui — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:39:32 GMT

Hello,

i'm trying to get BlobStoreName on Method Override "Initialize" from Object ConfigItem passed on parameter. but always he is being null.
thank you to help me for resolving this problem.

Regards,
hauthem brigui

New Post: SharePoint 2013 and extra data within BLOB files

daemonoid — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:28:14 GMT

Having tweaked a couple of bits here and there we have an RBS provider installed and happily running under SP2013.

We are experiencing some strange behaviour though...

When uploading any file extra data is included in the resulting BLOB. So a simple text file containing "Here is some simple test data...." is 1244bytes when the BLOB is stored on disk.

The data appears to be in a similar format for each BLOB when compared. There is little point in me sharing it in this post due to formatting problems, but I can send it on if anyone's interested.

We have data shredding on (as per default) but have increased the chunk size to be greater than the size of the files we're testing with.

Does anyone have any clue where this extra data is coming from? I assume it's something added by MS, but what for? and can we do anything fun with it?

New Post: “The URL is invalid” error when trying to upload a file (SP 2010)

daemonoid — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:12:55 GMT

Your provider is not correctly attached to sharepoint. From SharePoint management shell do the following:

$cdb = Get-SPContentDatabase <ContentDatabaseName>
$rbss = $cdb.RemoteBlobStorageSettings
$rbss

This will display the current provider status:

Enabled ActiveProviderName  MinimumBlobStorageS UpgradedPersistedPr
                                            ize operties
------- ------------------  ------------------- -------------------
   True MyTestProvider_01                     0 {}

If it does not show as above then you have something wrong and should step carefully through the instructions below:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff628969%28v=office.14%29.aspx

Common problems are:

Enabled is set to false - simply run through the provider enable script again:

$cdb = Get-SPContentDatabase <ContentDatabaseName>
$rbss = $cdb.RemoteBlobStorageSettings
$rbss.Installed()
$rbss.Enable()
$rbss.SetActiveProviderName($rbss.GetProviderNames()[0])
$rbss

Provider name is not available - this can be to do with the provided .sql file and the various install configuration files. It is important that the .sql and the InstallProvider.cmd match correctly. Go over this with a finetooth comb! This can also be problems with the DB admin rights when attempting to run the RBS.msi file - make sure the user you are installing via has full access to the DB.

A simple error is the MinimumBlobStorageSize - make sure the file you are uploading to test is bigger than that!

New Post: “The URL is invalid” error when trying to upload a file (SP 2010)

d128 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:21:22 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to setup Sharepoint 2010 (SQL Server 2008) to use SQL RBS for testing purposes. I followed all the steps required and in the process created a local folder C:\RBS_Store which serves as a BLOB store. The code samples (run from cmd) can access C:\RBS_Store and work fine. However, when I try to upload a file to a Sharepoint site from the browser/user interface, I get the following error:

"The URL 'file I'm trying to upload' is invalid. It may refer to a nonexistent file or folder, or refer to a valid file or folder that is not in the current Web."

and the file is neither uploaded to be seen in the browser nor it gets stored in the C:\RBS_Store. I have no such problem if I use the default FILESTREAM RBS provider.

OS: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP2 x64

Sharepoint log reveals that before the error is displayed, this is what happens:

"Exception thrown storing stream in new SqlRemoteBlob: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Data.SqlRemoteBlobs.ConfigItemList' threw an exception. ---> System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))"

I'm guessing this has something to do with permissions, but am not exactly sure what/where to look for. Any ideas or help would be apperciated.

New Post: RBS custom storage

daemonoid — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:52:36 GMT

I'm a bit late with this reply, but was browsing anyway...

In order to do this you would have to inspect the files individually (and rely on mime types or similar) as the metadata is not included so not really a great solution. Another option would be to use a webpart that appends data to the end of the file that you can read and strip before offloading, but again it's not a brilliant solution.

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New Post: RBS SAMPLE Configuration help

skdesai — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:26:23 GMT

do you have two different content database?

New Post: RBS SAMPLE Configuration help

rrajinik — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:12:17 GMT

That didn't work for me. I keep getting the co-relation ID error when I try to upload the file thru Sharepoint.

The only thing I differently was to enable on a new content database that I created with the following command

$cdb = Get-SPContentDatabase -Site siteUrl

New Post: RBS custom storage

WeiSun — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:24:29 GMT

yes, you can.

you can write your RBS Provider to do this

New Post: RBS custom storage

SPManiac — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:08:22 GMT

Is it possible to customise RBS code to store BLOBs to different sources. For example, I want to save *.xls files to Sharepoint database, and *.doc files to Sharepoint, *pdf files to one RBS location, *.html files to RBS but different location on disk?

New Post: dissociate Sharepoint pages and files from libraries files

walidowalido — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:21:59 GMT

Hello,

My problem is when i installed RBS on my application and i tried to execute Migrate() command, the sharepoint files too (GhostableInLibrary)

are migrated to my storage system, when that system is down my application is down too and resources are not found,

so my goal is to apply RBS only on uploaded files to librairies (pdf, doc,...) and not on sharepoint ressources.

is it possible?

thank you very much for your help

New Post: Create a new parameter

walidowalido — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:01:27 GMT

Hello,

My goal is to add a new parameter to RBS installation beside @LOCATION@, @CAPACITY@, etc.

this parameter will contain the RootDirectory ("c:\Code_Plex_RBS"), and i want to access this information in the

code of the provider, because i have many sharepoint pools and every content database is using a specific web service

to store blobs in a HD partition.

New Post: Writing a custom garbage collection solution

faysalmalik — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:17:18 GMT

Yes, we have our own RBS provider implemented and we want more control over garbage collection by doing it ourselves.

Faisal

New Post: Writing a custom garbage collection solution

vpurohit — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:24:39 GMT

Hi Faisal,

Is there a particular reason why you don't want to use Maintainer.exe? Writing custom garbage collection will depend on which RBS provider are you using. Are you also writing a custom provider?

Thanks,

Vijendra.

New Post: No provider of type found. Check the server configuration or install the provider on the client.

vpurohit — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:22:06 GMT

That's good to know. We already have a fix ready for this issue which will be shipped with a later version. We'll update codeplex as it becomes available.

Thanks,

Vijendra.