Move items in Blob storage between storage accounts or containers using AzCopy

AzCopy is a command-line utility that you can use to copy blobs or files to or from a storage account. This article helps you download AzCopy, connect to your storage account, and then transfer files.

1. Download AzCopy
   1. Windows 64-bit (zip)
   2. Windows 32-bit (zip)
   3. Linux (tar)
   4. MacOS (zip)
2. Run AzCopy
   1. If you choose not to add the AzCopy directory to your path, you’ll have to change directories to the location of your AzCopy executable and type azcopy or .\azcopy in Windows PowerShell command prompts.
   2. To see a list of commands, type azcopy -h and then press the ENTER key.
   3. To learn about a specific command, just include the name of the command (For example: azcopy list -h).
3. Now to authentication AzCopy to work with your Azure Storage Account you have following option
   

   Storage type	Currently supported method of authorization
   Blob storage	Azure AD & SAS
   Blob storage (hierarchical namespace)	Azure AD & SAS
   File storage	SAS only

4. We will use SAS Token, so generate a SAS token from Azure portal, please refer this link for help
   1. You can append a SAS token to each source or destination URL that use in your AzCopy commands.
   2. This example command recursively copies data from a local directory to a blob container. A fictitious SAS token is appended to the end of the of the container URL.

      azcopy copy "C:\local\path" "https://account.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer1/?sv=2018-03-28&ss=bjqt&srt=sco&sp=rwddgcup&se=2019-05-01T05:01:17Z&st=2019-04-30T21:01:17Z&spr=https&sig=MGCXiyEzbtttkr3ewJIh2AR8KrghSy1DGM9ovN734bQF4%3D" --recursive=true

5. Few more example can used for Data Transfer
   1. Upload a file

      azcopy copy 'C:\myDirectory\myTextFile.txt' 'https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myTextFile.txt'

   2. Upload a directory

      azcopy copy 'C:\myDirectory' 'https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer' --recursive

   3. Upload the contents of a directory

      azcopy copy 'C:\myDirectory\*' 'https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myBlobDirectory'

   4. Upload specific files

      azcopy copy 'C:\myDirectory' 'https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer' --include-path 'photos;documents\myFile.txt' --recursive

   5. Download a file

      azcopy copy 'https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myTextFile.txt' 'C:\myDirectory\myTextFile.txt'

   6. Download a directory

      azcopy copy 'https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myBlobDirectory' 'C:\myDirectory' --recursive

   7. Download the contents of a directory

      azcopy copy 'https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myBlobDirectory/*' 'C:\myDirectory'

   8. Download specific files

      azcopy copy 'https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/FileDirectory' 'C:\myDirectory' --include-path 'photos;documents\myFile.txt' --recursive

   9. Copy a blob to another storage account

      azcopy copy 'https://mysourceaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myTextFile.txt?sv=2018-03-28&ss=bfqt&srt=sco&sp=rwdlacup&se=2019-07-04T05:30:08Z&st=2019-07-03T21:30:08Z&spr=https&sig=CAfhgnc9gdGktvB=ska7bAiqIddM845yiyFwdMH481QA8%3D' 'https://mydestinationaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myTextFile.txt'

   10. Copy a directory to another storage account

       azcopy copy 'https://mysourceaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myBlobDirectory?sv=2018-03-28&ss=bfqt&srt=sco&sp=rwdlacup&se=2019-07-04T05:30:08Z&st=2019-07-03T21:30:08Z&spr=https&sig=CAfhgnc9gdGktvB=ska7bAiqIddM845yiyFwdMH481QA8%3D' 'https://mydestinationaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer' --recursive

   11. Copy a container to another storage account

       azcopy copy 'https://mysourceaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer?sv=2018-03-28&ss=bfqt&srt=sco&sp=rwdlacup&se=2019-07-04T05:30:08Z&st=2019-07-03T21:30:08Z&spr=https&sig=CAfhgnc9gdGktvB=ska7bAiqIddM845yiyFwdMH481QA8%3D' 'https://mydestinationaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer' --recursive

   12. Copy all containers, directories, and blobs to another storage account

       azcopy copy 'https://mysourceaccount.blob.core.windows.net/?sv=2018-03-28&ss=bfqt&srt=sco&sp=rwdlacup&se=2019-07-04T05:30:08Z&st=2019-07-03T21:30:08Z&spr=https&sig=CAfhgnc9gdGktvB=ska7bAiqIddM845yiyFwdMH481QA8%3D' 'https://mydestinationaccount.blob.core.windows.net' --recursive

   13. Update a container with changes to a local file system

       azcopy sync 'C:\myDirectory' 'https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer' --recursive

   14. Update a local file system with changes to a container

       azcopy sync 'https://mysourceaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer' 'https://mydestinationaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer' --recursive

   15. Update a container with changes in another container

       azcopy sync 'https://mysourceaccount.blob.core.windows.net/<container-name>/myDirectory' 'https://mydestinationaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myDirectory' --recursive