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• Container Name - the name of the Azure container where the new blob will be created and the backup stored. Every Azure blob must reside in a container. The container forms part of the blob name. If no container with the input name exists, a new one will be created. For more information, click 

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  alias here url https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-how-to-use-blobs/#create-a-container

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• Azure Storage Account Name - the account name of your storage account. Every object that you store in Azure Storage has a unique URL address. The storage account name forms the subdomain of that address. You can find more information in on the following 

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  alias link url https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-create-storage-account/#storage-account-endpoints

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• Azure Access Key - you can use any of the access keys provided to your Azure Storage Account. For more information about Azure Keys, click 

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  alias here url https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-create-storage-account/#view-and-copy-storage-access-keys

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• Sector Type - define the Azure sector type:
  • Public - commercial cloud storage solution.
  • Government - cloud storage solution offered to US government customers and their partners.

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You can configure the file size by updating the Windows Registry on the machine hosting the SQL Safe Backup Agent using the following steps:

• Add a new registry REG_DWORD key to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Idera\SQLsafe named AzureFileSize.
• Update the AzureFileSize key to a decimal value of your desired file size. For example, if you want the default file size to be 100MB, the key value should be set to 100.
• Restart all SQL Safe services on the machine.

If there are network connection problems, the backup eventually fails, but files remain on Windows Azure. SQL Safe will not delete these partial backup files. If you want to delete those, you need to do it manually on your Azure account.

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The Microsoft Azure Blob service is based on a flat storage scheme, not a hierarchical scheme. However, SQL Safe allows you to specify subfolders which that act as a virtual hierarchy. If you store a large number of blobs in your Azure container then it is recommended to utilize subfolders to improve SQL Safe performance.

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