Linux Azcopy directory

Overview

Recently I was in a situation where I need to copy multiple directories in to Azure storage. So, following is the steps I followed to copy into azure storage. Normally I use azcopy when it comes to copy files to azure storage.

Install AzCopy on Linux

#Download AzCopy
wget https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-linux

#Expand Archive
tar -xvf downloadazcopy-v10-linux

#(Optional) Remove existing AzCopy version
sudo rm /usr/bin/azcopy

#Move AzCopy to the destination you want to store it
sudo cp ./azcopy_linux_amd64_*/azcopy /usr/bin/

Authenticate AzCopy

When it comes to authenticate Azcopy we have two options as below. I picked the authenticate vis SAS token

Using Azure AD

By using Azure Active Directory, we can provide credentials once instead of having to append SAS token each command.

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Using SAS token

I picked the SAS token and used the command as below.

By running below command which uses SAS token will copy directory to Azure storage.

azcopy copy "/home/app/public_html/storage/documents" "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=MGCXissyEzbtttkr3ewJIh2AR8KrghSy1DGM9ovN734bQF4%3D" --recursive=true