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EPiCode.SqlBlobProvider.SqlBlobProvider - migrate to EPiServer DXP, Azure blobs.

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Hi,

I'm trying to migrate to EPiServer DXP and my problem is our solution uses SqlBlobProvider (blobs in the database) - which EPiServers support say is not recomended. I've tried to export the blobs to disk using the code i will post later on. The export times out with SqlException and i will post the exception (in Swedish - sorry!) later on aswell.

My questions are:
How do i set an episerver scheduled job not to timeout when exporting big files (im guessing that's one problem)? This might be an SQL-problem or the SqlBlobProvider that needs configuration. 

Is there a better way of doing this then my code below? 

Can i export the files directly to episerver blob storage? 

How do i give access to EPiServers scheduled job write access so i can write out the files to FTP? Then download, then upload to the blob storage. 

Will any of this solve my problem?

Code for export: 

using EPiServer.PlugIn;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

namespace EPiCode.SqlBlobProvider
{
    [ScheduledPlugIn(DisplayName = "Export SQL Blobs", Description = "Exports all SQL Blobs to disk", SortIndex = 10001)]
    public class ExportSqlBlobsJob : EPiServer.Scheduler.ScheduledJobBase
    {
        private bool _stopSignaled;
        private string Status = string.Empty;
        private int Exported = 0;
        private string SaveDirectory = @"../../Blobs";
        //private int RetryAttempts = 3;
        public ExportSqlBlobsJob()
        {
            IsStoppable = true;
        }
        public override void Stop()
        {
            _stopSignaled = true;
        }

        public override string Execute()
        {
            OnStatusChanged("Export started.");

            var store = SqlBlobModelRepository.SqlBlobStore;

             //Different sortings to export as many blobs as possible.
            //var items = store.Items<SqlBlobModel>();
            //var items = store.Items<SqlBlobModel>().OrderBy(x => x.Blob);
            var items = store.Items<SqlBlobModel>().OrderBy(x => x.BlobId);
            //var items = store.Items<SqlBlobModel>().OrderBy(x => x.Id);
            //var items = store.Items<SqlBlobModel>().OrderByDescending(x => x.Id);
            //var items = store.Items<SqlBlobModel>().OrderByDescending(x => x.BlobId);
            //var items = store.Items<SqlBlobModel>().OrderByDescending(x => x.Blob);

            ExportBlobs(items);

            Status += $"Job has completed. {Exported} SQL blobs has been exported to {SaveDirectory}.";
            OnStatusChanged(Status);
            return Status;
        }

        private void ExportBlobs(IOrderedQueryable<SqlBlobModel> items)
        {
            int counter = 0;
            foreach (SqlBlobModel item in items)
            {
                if (_stopSignaled)
                {
                    OnStatusChanged("Stop signal called.");
                    break;
                }

                var id = item.BlobId;
                var path = SaveDirectory + id.Segments[0] + id.Segments[1] + id.Segments[2].TrimEnd('\\');
                if (File.Exists(path))
                {
                    counter++;
                    OnStatusChanged($"Exists skipping: {counter} Exported: {Exported}");
                    continue;
                }
                OnStatusChanged($"Exporting id: {id} to directory: {path}");
                var directoryPath = Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.GetDirectoryName(path));
                if (item.Blob != null)
                {
                    var stream = new MemoryStream(item.Blob);
                    var fileStream = File.Create(path);
                    stream.CopyTo(fileStream);
                    fileStream.Close();
                    stream.Close();
                }
                Exported++;
            }
        }
    }
}

SqlException:

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException
  HResult=0x80131904
  Message=Tidsgränsen för körning har upphört.  Tidsgränsen uppnåddes innan åtgärden kunde slutföras, eller så svarar inte servern.
  Source=.Net SqlClient Data Provider
  StackTrace:
<Cannot evaluate the exception stack trace>

Inner Exception 1:
Win32Exception: Tidsgränsen för vänteåtgärden överskreds

Hopefully someone can shed some light to this matter so we can progress and migrate to DXP. :) 

Kind regards,

Robin

#254009
Apr 28, 2021 7:46
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I'm not familiar with SqlBlobModelRepository - is it your custom code?

It looks like DDS anyway, so you have more than 1 problem here.

Where is the exception thrown?

#254010
Apr 28, 2021 8:04
robbra84 - Apr 28, 2021 8:10
No it is the addon: EPiCode.SqlBlobProvider.SqlBlobModelRepository.SqlBlobStore
The exception comes from one of the items (might be more than one) in the foreach. Thats why im ordering them in different ways to export as many as possible.
I cannot post links at the moment so if you google EPiServer SqlBlobStore you will find it. It stores blobs in the database which we are trying to export and avoid.
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Ok so it seems your code is a modified version of this https://github.com/BVNetwork/SqlBlobProvider/blob/master/src/EPiCode.SqlBlobProvider/SqlBlobExportJob.cs

From what I understand, Items<T> does not load the items to memory, which makes sense, but keep an open connection. That is likely causing your time out.

What you can try, is to something like this

var ids =  store.Items<SqlBlobModel>().Select(x=>x.Id).ToList();

foreach(Identity id in ids)

{

 var item = store.Load<SqlBlobModel>(id);

//do your stuff here

}

You can also increase the time out setting which will likely help.

#254012
Apr 28, 2021 8:32
robbra84 - Apr 28, 2021 9:08
Seems to be working, thank you for taking the time to help me out! It has been exporting for a while now and is still going. I'll let you know when the job completes.
robbra84 - Apr 28, 2021 9:25
How can I increase the time out setting? Sorry if my questions are dumb but i've already tried a bunch of things, like connectionstring timeout, DB setting (couldn't find it though) and probably more which i cant remember. And i dont know if its the IIS, DB or may be the job that has a default setting.
It is probably a few files that are to large to migrate. When i sort the job in different ways it has different time before it times out.


Quan Mai - Apr 28, 2021 9:32
No question is dumb - it's good that you tried. I think this https://world.episerver.com/documentation/developer-guides/CMS/configuration/Configuring-episerverdataStore/ will work for you
robbra84 - Apr 28, 2021 9:42
Thank you for the help, i will post the final solution here if anyone else has the same problem when i'm done if i get it to work.
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Thanks again Quan Mai!

Here is my final solution. 
Code: 

using EPiServer.PlugIn;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

namespace EPiCode.SqlBlobProvider
{
    [ScheduledPlugIn(DisplayName = "Export SQL Blobs", Description = "Exports all SQL Blobs to disk", SortIndex = 10001)]
    public class ExportSqlBlobsJob : EPiServer.Scheduler.ScheduledJobBase
    {
        private bool _stopSignaled;
        private string Status = string.Empty;
        private int Exported = 0;
        private string SaveDirectory = @"../../Blobs";
        public ExportSqlBlobsJob()
        {
            IsStoppable = true;
        }
        public override void Stop()
        {
            _stopSignaled = true;
        }

        public override string Execute()
        {
            OnStatusChanged("Export started.");

            ExportBlobs();

            Status += $"Job has completed. {Exported} SQL blobs has been exported to {SaveDirectory}.";
            OnStatusChanged(Status);
            return Status;
        }

        private void ExportBlobs()
        {
            var store = SqlBlobModelRepository.SqlBlobStore;
            var ids = store.Items<SqlBlobModel>().OrderByDescending(x => x.Blob).Select(x => x.Id);
            int counter = 0;
            foreach (var id in ids)
            {
                var item = store.Load<SqlBlobModel>(id);
                if (_stopSignaled)
                {
                    OnStatusChanged("Stop signal called.");
                    break;
                }

                var id2 = item.BlobId;
                var path = SaveDirectory + id2.Segments[0] + id2.Segments[1] + id2.Segments[2].TrimEnd('\\');
                if (File.Exists(path))
                {
                    counter++;
                    OnStatusChanged($"Exists skipping: {counter} Exported: {Exported}");
                    continue;
                }
                OnStatusChanged($"Exporting id: {id} to directory: {path}");
                var directoryPath = Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.GetDirectoryName(path));
                if (item.Blob != null)
                {
                    var stream = new MemoryStream(item.Blob);
                    var fileStream = File.Create(path);
                    stream.CopyTo(fileStream);
                    fileStream.Close();
                    stream.Close();
                }
                Exported++;
            }
        }
    }
}

web.config:

<section name="episerver.dataStore" type="EPiServer.Data.Configuration.EPiServerDataStoreSection, EPiServer.Framework.AspNet" />

<episerver.dataStore>
		<dataStore defaultProvider="EPiServerSQLServerDataStoreProvider">
		</dataStore>
		<dataSettings connectionStringName="EPiServerDB"
										  retries="3"
										  retryDelay="0:0:0.1"
										  databaseQueryTimeout="0:05:00" />
</episerver.dataStore>

I know the code isn't optimized to it's full potential - hopefully this job only needs to run once now that it works. 

Most results when i searched for help was the episerver.datastore said it the DLL should be EPiServer.Data - i finally found if you're using EPiServer 11 or higher you should use EPiServer.Framework.AspNet.
The databaseQueryTimeout (databaseQueryTimeout="0:05:00") is now set to 5 minutes which i hope is enough, you could increase it but if something is wrong you will have to wait for the amount of time you set before the connection closes. 

I added <episerver.dataStore> directly under the closing </episerver> tag if someone, like myself, dont have great knowledge in how everything worksin configuration files. :) 
It now has Exported: 9387 so i'm pretty sure it works. :) 

#254038
Apr 28, 2021 16:24
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Hi again,

When the program ran for 2 hours yesterday i got a "OutOfMemoryException" - how I solved it was I ordered the list in reverse and tried again, the code ran for 2 hours again and i got the same Exception. I still saw it skipped about 12.000 files before it stoped so it should be fine. It was about 13 - 14.000 files but now i got it fixed. If you have more files then I had you can look at msdn "Trubleshoot outofmemoryexception" for the job. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/aspnet/troubleshoot-outofmemoryexception

I've copied all files to our DXP and it looks like it's working. 

Hopefully this helps someone! :) 

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Apr 29, 2021 7:31
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