How to manually download files in blob when creating release?

[res...@gmail.com]

Hi guys,

I know this is a old question but it seems no perfect solution..

Error log is simple, when doing bosh create release --force:

Syncing blobs ...

...

buildpack_nodejs (bb0e4c1bb90effad1ffa50d2aa90e727a55039ff) FOUND REMOTE Downloading 670dcb31-e4a1-4b12-b9c5-e7aafcd1fed5...

/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/blobstore_client-1.2334.0/lib/blobstore_client/base.rb:63:in rescue in get': Failed to fetch object, underlying error: #<HTTPClient::ReceiveTimeoutError: execution expired>

So, I confirm that I can download the file directly from http://blob.cfblob.com/670dcb31-e4a1-4b12-b9c5-e7aafcd1fed5

And the question is what's the next? Where should I place this file (432Mb) in order to make bosh cli create release work?

[Dmitriy Kalinin]

There is no easy way to place it in the final position. CLI does few different steps after it downloads it. 

If you having problem downloading blobs from your machine there are few things to try:

- make sure you are on the latest version of cli (some time ago we started aggressively retry)

- try running command on an AWS instance and the copying release directory down to your machine

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[Lei Zhang]

Thanks. I also tried the lattest bosh_cli, no luck.

Finally, I solved the problem by a create release loop until it exit with 0 ... 

And I think your AWS idea really makes sense. 

[Dmitriy Kalinin]

Out of curiosity how many times did it try before succeeding? cli itself tries about 5 times.

[Lei Zhang]

I did not save the log, but I'm sure it's more than 5 times.