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Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials

You're reading from   Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials Harness the power of Microsoft Azure services to build efficient cloud solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396237
Length 126 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. An Introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage Services 2. Developing Against Storage FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Blobs 4. Working with Tables 5. Designing Scalable and Performant Tables 6. Working with Queues 7. Working with the Azure File Service 8. Transient Fault Handling and Analytics Index

Using AzCopy


AzCopy is a free command-line tool that is offered by Microsoft. It allows you to easily copy and transfer data from and to Azure storage. It is designed for high performance transfers, with some really good features like verbose logging and progress monitor. AzCopy allows users to select items by specifying patterns, like wildcards or prefixes, to identify the needed files for upload or download. It currently supports blobs, files, and table storage.

After installing the software, in order to upload a set of files in a local directory to your Azure File share, you can run the following command in the AzCopy command-line console:

AzCopy /Source:C:\temp /Dest:https://<account-name>.file.core.windows.net/<share-name>/ /DestKey:<account-key>  /Pattern:set* /S

The preceding command will recursively upload all files specified in the source folder with a name matching the pattern set* for our file share.

To download the file you would use the following command:

AzCopy...
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