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70005 Invalid Path on DeleteFiles

mlindsay — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:08:04 GMT

I'm attempting to delete an existing folder using the SDK (version 1.5.2), and getting an invalid path exception. I know the folder exist and path is correct. Please advise. Caused by: com.nirvanix.sdk.session.NirvanixException 70005: Invalid path at com.nirvanix.sdk.transport.Transport.getNirvanixApiResponse(Transport.java:264) at com.nirvanix.sdk.transport.Transport.executeCommand(Transport.java:153) at com.nirvanix.sdk.session.Session.deleteFiles(Session.java:398)

Windows Server Backup

noxid8 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:52:56 GMT

I'm looking to backup about 17 remote sites as cost effectively as possible. I was looking to use CloudNAS and the backup software of the OS. Trying this on a Windows 2008 server I run into the following problem. When I get to the Specify Destination it has three options 1) Backup to a dedicated hard disk 2) Backup to a Volume and 3) Backup to a shared network folder. Non of these options see the CloudNAS drive. Is there another way to get Windows Server Backup to work or is it not supported? Any other suggestions welcomed. Thanks.

Cache control

AdamB — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:27:05 GMT

Is there any method of controlling content expiration, or setting the content expiration headers of a file (either after the fact or while uploading) for publicly available files?

Thanks!

Adam

Using CloudNAS with multiple machines pushing files to the cloud

PERydell — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:51:00 GMT

I have my CloudNAS mounted and working great. When I push a file up to the cloud using nput from another machine, how does the server with the mounted cloud drive know how often to look for changes? I waited a few minutes and the files didn't appear. So I unmounted and then remounted and the files appeared after a moment. Is there a configuration for setting how often to "look" in the cloud for updates?

automatically clear the CloudNAS queue?

justin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:08:25 GMT

Is there any way to configure CloudNAS to automaticly clear the queue after a period of time or even just after the upload is complete? I find myself having to manually clear the queue regularly or else it fills up all space.

multithreading

dpkingsbury — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:14:07 GMT

I see things like this in the C# api, and am wondering if it is not possible to have multiple threads reading and writing at the same time?

public void DownloadToStream(string path, Stream writeStream)

{

if (isDownloadInProgress)

{

throw new SDKException("A file is already being downloaded.");

}

this.isDownloadInProgress = true;

Limited public access to files

jdmwood — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:42:22 GMT

Hi there,

I'm trying to solve a particular problem and I could do with some advice.

I have a situation where a user (with a Nirvanix child account) has uploaded files and he needs to share them with other users in a secure way. The other users may not have a Nirvanix child account - i.e. they'd access the files through public HTTP GET.

The complicated bit is that the source user may be offline for long periods of time.

So, this is basically very similar to the "box.net" approach: i.e. I securely upload a file to my Nirvanix child account. I generate a random URL for that file and I give that URL to my friend. A few days/weeks pass. He then comes to try and download the file. I won't know in advance his IP address, but I can pass other information to him, e.g. a token or whatever.

Ideally, it would be great if I could have "proper" authentication - i.e. a secure token that I could pass to my friend along with the link. But, I guess as long as the URL is nice and "random" (e.g. "http://node1.nirvanix.com/92jfnv9hwqnkdaslsa902") then I guess that would be secure enough.

What I'm trying to avoid is situations where an attacker could "guess" URLs and download them (e.g. if I number my files "0","1","2" etc I don't want an attacker to be able to "walk" URLs to find them).

I should stress that the files are already encrypted so in a sense I'm being paranoid, but still, I think it would be preferable to make it hard for an attacker to be able to easily download all the users files.

So, some questions:

If I use GetOptimalUrls does that mean I don't need to use CreateHostedItem?
What happens if I set the expiration of GetOptimalUrls to a long period (e.g. days/weeks). The doc says that I should set this as small as possible and regenerate it so the downloader gets the "best" URL. But I can't do this as I have to assume the user is offline. So what are the implications of just doing this once with a long expiration? If it just means that the downloader will get a sub-optimally located server (e.g. wrong continent) I can totally live with that. If, however it means that it only takes one single Nirvanix server to crash/undergoing maintanence to break that URL, this is not good. Do you give any guarantees about how reliable a GetOptimalUrls URL is?
What about the alternate approach of using CreateHostedItem? Is that a better fit?
Does CreateHostedItem give "pseudorandom" URLs - i.e. helping avoid attackers guessing, or does the URL contain the filename?
Can anyone suggest a better way of doing this?

Regards,

John

Files have been queued for upload. Before the upload completes, I delete the file(s). It is still being uploaded.

screamshaw — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:44:24 GMT

With cache enabled, I’ve just backed up some files to the /nirvanix folder, and they are queued for upload. However, upload isn’t completed yet… and I deleted those files. However, the upload queue still continues. Say there are 3 files : A, B and C in the queue… And I delete all 3 files from command line. I waited for File A to complete its upload to see what happens. File B continues to upload as well. Other than deleting the cache, is there a way to selectively remove files from a queue? Say, I have copy more files, D, E and F after deleting the first 3. I would like to remove only A, B and C from the queue as well as the cache.

Can I set the Upload Retry Duration

screamshaw — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:17:12 GMT

I have several files that need uploading... e.g. File-A (1GB) File-B (1GB) File-C (4GB) File-D (1GB) ... My upload rate is between 400-600Kb/s and is consistent with the 1GB files. However, whenever it attempts to upload the 4GB File, it will upload more than 75% of it... and ends up timing out, and repeats the whole upload again. This goes on for almost 12-17 hours, but eventually gets through. I recall in my post about uploading larger 45GB files, that it will retry to upload the last 10MB if it exceeds a duration of 10 minutes of time out. Can I set the upload retry to a longer duration? If so, what would be the variable name I can set in the cloudnas.conf. I had also considered setting the variable "UpdateService.PartLength.MB" to a larger value than the default... perhaps 4GB?

80006 - Session not found

CheckeredFlag — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:05:25 GMT

I'm getting tons of "Session not found" errors lately. It started happening about the time we got a second cable modem from another ISP for redundancy and load balancing. My network guy has assured me that all outbound traffic from my server is forced to go over the same modem so my IP should not change. Initial test seem to confirm this is indeed the case. How can I troubleshoot why Nirvanix keeps rejecting my session ids? Marco Moreno

Stuck on upload

bbutte — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:14:47 GMT

I cannot get the sample code (Zend Framework) to upload files to my account. I repeatedly get a 70005 error which I cannot make sense of as it doesn't indicate which path is invalid; the source path or the destination path. For testing my source path is simply '/db.php' which is a small file and my destination path is '/'. The script will automatically create the destination folders as it's supposed to so I assume the problem is the source path. I don't have any issues with Amazon S3 or Azure Blob so I'm lost for a solution...

rest interface

dpkingsbury — Mon, 09 May 2011 21:12:46 GMT

I have an application where I would like to upload alot of bytes that might be on many files, often 30-40 megabytes/set. I don't need this to be in a filesystem-like thing, I would rather have a flat namespace. I know how to do REST in C#, and would like to read and write large datasets, giving them arbitrary names, like a text GUID. I would like suggestions, sample code, etc.

CIFS

dpkingsbury — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:40:31 GMT

How do I set up a CIFS interface to Nirvanix in Windows server? Is there are demo available so I can set it up in my lab for eval?

Interrupt the upload of a single large file of around 45GB

screamshaw — Tue, 10 May 2011 05:33:44 GMT

I'm testing some backups to the SDN via CloudNAS. The target machine is running Linux, - cache is in /usr/share/nirvanix and - the mount point is in /nirvanix I've copied the single large file to /nirvanix, and the cache already uses up 45GB of space. Using "uploadmon.cloudnas status" command, i know that there is around 28GB of data remaining to be uploaded. If the upload is interrupted, say by disconnecting the network cable... and after 30-60 minutes later, i restore the network by reconnecting the cable. I notice that the amount of data remaining to be uploaded has increased to about 35GB. Has the upload been 'reset'? Does CloudNAS re-upload these files each time there is an interruption to the network connectivity? Lastly, will users be charged for each upload attempt, despite the fact that it was unsuccessful? Or will users only be charged if there was a successful upload and that same amount of data makes it to the SDN?

Headers ignored in HttpUpload

mlr263 — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:37:18 GMT

I was testing uploading images using the HttpUpload api, and it seems that some of my headers are being ignored. Here is my form data:

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file";filename="aaef8feb-5add-4f3a-81f4-77c6d7eb98c5.jpg"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Range: 0-53664/53665
Content-MD5: syFE1SbjvLPXwK4e9EY4Mg==
Content-Metadata: test1:val1,test2:val2

And here is the response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Response>
   <ResponseCode>0</ResponseCode>
   <FilesUploaded>1</FilesUploaded>
   <BytesUploaded>53665</BytesUploaded>
</Response>

However, the actual MD5 Hash for the uploaded image is ra0K6n2gEgXu+PqQ+rJoMw==, so the upload should have failed. Also, none of the Metadata is being persisted. What could I be doing wrong?

Thanks,

Stuart

Backup Exec + Nirvanix

audiolomb — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:02:13 GMT

I am reading from the Symantec Integration document: "To use the integrated storage pool (SDN application) management features, you must have default node-replication policy settings for your Nirvanix account. New storage pools inherit the default policies, but you can adjust them for each storage pool to fit your business needs." I am wondering where I can find those policy settings under my account. Can anybody help me? Thank you.

Update a part of a file.

brendan0powers — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:51:17 GMT

I am interested in updating a part of a file. For example, I have a file I have already uploaded, and a local file on my computer. I've compared the 2 files, and find a piece of the file that has changed. I would like to only update that part of the file, and nothing else. Is this possible, and if so, can someone point me at the correct documentation. So far, I've only found documentation for uploading a while file at once, or appending to an existing file.

Determining URL's

mlr263 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:59:31 GMT

Quick question on URLs for files.

We're going to be using Nirvanix for serving images up for clients to browse. We have many images and I'm wondering the best way to send image links to the client. If a user requests a slide show for an album, there may be as many as 3 or 4 hundred images associated. What would be ideal is to have a determinate URL that I could send back, rather than making a call to your API and calling "GetOptimalUrls" for each request. I'm concerned that calling this every time will introduce latency which would be undesirable. Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly, but could you shed some light on this for me?

Stuart

Crop image

dotmlj — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:50:50 GMT

Hi.

Can't find a Crop function for images, if it's not there make this a feature request.

Java SDK 1.5.2 issue -- java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""

UmeshBhandari — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:50:50 GMT

Hi Barry, We are using Nirvanix Java SDK 1.5.2, Upload/download functionality was working fine but recently we are facing following issue while uploading. java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "" at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48) at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:424) at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:461) at java.text.DigitList.getLong(DigitList.java:167) at java.text.DecimalFormat.parse(DecimalFormat.java:1271) at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.subParse(SimpleDateFormat.java:1375) at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.parse(SimpleDateFormat.java:1124) at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:333) at com.nirvanix.sdk.session.Utilities.convertAPIStringToDate(Utilities.java:268) at com.nirvanix.sdk.transport.FSItemAttributes.(FSItemAttributes.java:41) at com.nirvanix.sdk.transport.FSFileAttributes.(FSFileAttributes.java:29) at com.nirvanix.sdk.transport.FSFolderList.(FSFolderList.java:55) at com.nirvanix.sdk.session.Folder.getFolderList(Folder.java:290) at com.nirvanix.sdk.session.Folder.listFolder(Folder.java:231) at com.nirvanix.sdk.session.Session.getFolder(Session.java:183) As per understanding it happens when try to get a folder already created in Nirvanix (getfolder()) function but it looks the date passed is not in expected format. While using getfolder() function we provided following input params: (path,1,500,FolderSortCode.CreatedDate,true). Please let us know your inputs.

listing of subfolders

Nandini — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:16:47 GMT

Hi, I ve written a code to list the files and folders,but it lists only one level of sub folders.Later it will throw an error telling the path is not proper.I made use of the full path api,but it contains the path in the form say for an eg, apoo\nandy.But the character,"\" is not supposed to be in the path.So can anybody plz help. Thanks in advance.

ThePlanet cloud setup. idiot's guide?

pman — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:13:26 GMT

theplanet gives me 10gb of cloud storage each month.

since I have a windows 64bit server, I was never given access to the cloud.

However, I plan to install a virtual machine running winxp 32bit so that I can access the cloud.

theplanet provided me with a 36 digit application key to access the cloud.

How do I setup cloud access on winxp 32bit?

I searched around, and I don't know where to start !

where is the software? I read something about cloudnas. But where do i get it?

SSL Support with Virtual URL Hosting

mlr263 — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:09:00 GMT

Once I have created virtual urls mapped to an application, could someone please explain how to set up SSL? Thank you, Stuart

Search File System Unexpected Response Code

AKayyali — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:00:26 GMT

I am using Search File System on REST Request, I am getting Response code 80003 which is Access Denied, Is Search file system is limited to the Master Account? any help would be greatly appreciated.

Application File/Folder Modification Callbacks

mlr263 — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:18:03 GMT

I have an idea for a feature which I don't think is currently available for the SDN. It would be useful in certain instances to receive a callback if a file/folder was modified/added/deleted. Could you look into the possibility of providing a means to specify a default callback URL as a property of the Application so that when a file/folder is modified/added/deleted, a REST call could be made using that default callback URL? In the case of client applications which keep items cached, this could be very beneficial in keeping the cache current.

Just a suggestion.

Thanks,

Stuart