Azure Blob storage is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured data.AzCopy is a Windows command-line utility designed for copying data to and from Microsoft Azure storage (e.g.Blob, File, and Table) using commands. In this article we will look into how to upload a text file to Azure Blob Storage using AzCopy Command-Line Utility in a step by step manner.
Introduction
Azure Blob storage is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured data.AzCopy is a Windows command-line utility designed for copying data to and from Microsoft Azure storage (e.g.Blob, File, and Table) using commands. In this article we will look into how to upload a text file to Azure Blob Storage using AzCopy Command-Line Utility in a step by step manner.
Step by step approach
Step 1: Installation of AzCopy
As a first step we need to install the AzCopy tool as described under.
Download latest version of AzCopy. Click the MicrosoftAzureStorageTools.msi file
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Install.
Once the installation is over, we will get
Click Finish.
The "AzCopy.exe" file is installed to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\AzCopy"
Open command prompt in Admin mode and point to AzCopy installation directory on the computer
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\AzCopy>
Step 2: Create a Blob Container in the Azure Portal
Open the Azure portal(https://portal.azure.com), and then choose Storage Account
As a first step we need to create Storage Account
Refresh to list the Storage account(e.g. testrnablob)
Click on testrnablob and the below opens
Now we need to create a blob container so click on the "+" button
Click Create button.
But at present no blob is added as revealed below
Step 3: Get the Access Keys
We need to get the access keys as shown under
Step 4: Create a text file
Now let us create a text file say (BlobInputByRNA_3_6_2017.txt) under D:\BlobSource whose content is as under
Step 5: Upload the text file from local disk to Azure blob storage using the AzCopy Command-Line Utility
Now issue the below command from the command prompt.
AzCopy /Source:D:\BlobSource /Dest:<AZURE BLOB CONTAINER URL> /DestKey:<ACCESS KEY> /Pattern:"*.txt" /destType:blob
The general syntax is
AzCopy /Source:<SOURCE FOLDER> /Dest:<AZURE BLOB CONTAINER URL> /DestKey:<ACCESS KEY> /Pattern:"*.txt" /destType:blob
Step 6: Check the Blob Container
If we check the blob container, we will find
So our file has been uploaded successfully
If we want to upload multiple files into the blob storage like [ A text file, a video file, an image file, a csv and an excel file]
we have to issue the below command
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\AzCopy>AzCopy /Source:D:\BlobSource
/Dest:https://testrnablob.blob.core.windows.net/rna-blob-container /DestKey:<ACCESS KEY> /destType:blob
If we check the blob container, we will find
Conclusion
In this article we saw how to upload unstructured files from local disk to Azure Blob Storage (for both single and multiples) using AzCopy utility in a step by step manner. Hope this will be helpful. Thanks for reading.