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Backing up Azure Files - High cost Read operations
I have found that Azure Files is unusable for large deployments due to the high cost of backups, especially for deployments with lots of small files. Most backup solutions have a changed block tracking mechanism and filter driver that can quickly determine what has changed between the prior backup. If nothing has changed since the last backup, the job quickly makes this determination and the backup job can take seconds to complete. But with Azure Backup backing up Azure Files, it appears to me that each backup has to enumerate every file and blob before making this determination. I first noticed this when I created a 1TB file share and nothing changed with the files from the prior backup and the job took 12 hours to complete. I then looked at my bill and it was $12 in read operations just for that backup where no files have changed. Azure Files is an awesome product, but securing your backups in a vault using Azure Backup just isn't doable from a price perspective. Does anyone know if there are changes on the horizon to Azure Backup in terms of a more robust change block tracking system?
Inherited VM data disk setup query
Hi there, I've inherited a VM in Azure: OS Premium SSD disk of 127GB 4 x 4095 GB Standard HDD In the VM the data drive totals 10.2TB with 7.6TB of space. I want to reduce the size but realize I can't, I'd have to create new smaller drives then move data to new drive letter in WIndows. My confusion is why are there four identically sized disks? Also how do they only total 10.2TB when in the Windows partition manager there is no unallocated space? Any suggestions if I've missed anything would be great. THank you.
Unable change the custom name in Azure share File URl
Hi all, I am trying to change the custom name in my Azure File Share URL from its current format (//<Storage Account Name>.file.core.windows.net/<file share name>) to desired format (//AFS/<file share name>) without having to do any changes in on-premises side. but unable to do this work. I would like to access Azure file share from on-premises system file explorer using (//AFS/<file share name>) URL. If any possibility is there, please let me know your feedback. Thanks
Azure file sync, avoid duplicate files
Hello guys, I've a share with 2 server endpoint with Cloud Tiering enabled in Azure file sync environment, unfortunately on this share are created duplicate files with the name of the server endpoint so it means that the same file are opened by users on both endpoint. My question is if it's possibile to set priority on these endpoint so the users can connect only to the first endpoint server unless this is unavailable then the second endpoint can be use. Or there are other method to avoid this duplicated files? thanks
Azure Logic App Creating multiple containers
Hi guys, I have a simple workflow in logic apps that reads data from library in sharepoint and then create the file inside of blob container. The problem is that a container is being created for each time the file is updated. So the logic app is creating the file normally but is also creating a new container with ID codes as a name. Has anyone experienced this before? ThanksStatus of uploading file
Hi, is it possible to get status of uploading file from blob storage? I have a case when user A is uploading large file to storage via SAS to myContainer/uploadingBlob. My server has information that someone wants to upload there but there is no way to directly tell that user is actually uploading anything there. Is it possible to get that information from storage? What if user cancels the upload?Enable Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage
We want to take advantage of this additional perfromance and wanted to see if it's GA (General Availibility) ? I see that, it's been almost 1 year since introducing of this feature but still in public preview. We want to enable this for our production workload. Do we need to wait for GA or can we go-ahead with it. Need your gudiance at the earliest.Manage/restore metadata when blob is updated
I'm using an Azure Storage container of block blobs as a data source for an Azure AI Search Index, and I'm using Blob metadata key value pairs for some custom data. But metadata gets wiped when a blob is updated. How are folks managing that? For reference, I've got a CosmosDB set up also for now with a cross-reference I can restore from, but it's manual. I considered using Cosmos as my data source instead, but I also need a place to store/serve media files from related to these records.
Copy from on-prem to Azure Archive Tier
Hi All, We have an on-prem NetApp File Share. We are thinking of copying data from on-prem NetApp file share to Azure Archive Tier ( Blob) for long term backup. The files in Azure Archive will not be accessed unless there is some special need. We are ok with the 15 hour rehydration time. If we need, we want to be able to rehydrate the files from Archive to a hot/cold blob and access them from NetApp. As I understand we can use CLI in batch mode to upload large number of files to Azure Archive. However how easy or difficult is it going to be to rehydrate the files into a hot/cold blob and read the same through NetApp file share. Essentially ( If I am correct) the rehydrated files will need to be mounted to NetApp. if there any solution for this problem? Thanks Pallav
