AzCopy (v10 Preview) is the next-generation command-line utility designed for copying data to/from Microsoft Azure Blob and File, using simple commands designed for optimal performance. You can copy data between a file system and a storage account, or between storage accounts.
- Copy data from Azure Blob containers/File shares to File system, and vice versa
- Copy block blobs between two Azure Storage accounts
- Sync a directory in local file system to Azure Blob, or vice versa
- List/Remove files and blobs in a given path
- Supports glob patterns in path, and --exclude flags
- Resillient: retries automatically after a failure, and supports resuming after a failed job
- Synchronize a file system up to Azure Blob or vice versa. Use
azcopy sync <source> <destination> - Supports Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Use
myaccount.dfs.core.windows.netfor the URI to use ADLS Gen2 APIs. - Supports copying an entire account (Blob service only) to another account. Use
azcopy cp https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net https://myotheraccount.blob.core.windows.netwhich will enumerate all Blob containers and copy to the destination account - Supports copying data from AWS S3
- Account to account copy is now using the new Put from URL APIs that will copy the data directly from one storage account to another. No data transfer is needed down to the client where AzCopy runs. Therefore it is significantly faster!
- List/Remove files and blobs in a given path
- Supports glob patterns in path, and --exclude flags
- Every AzCopy run will create a job order, and a related log file. You can view and restart previous jobs using
azcopy jobscommand. - Improved performance all around!
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Download the AzCopy executable using one of the following links:
- Windows x64 (zip)
- Linux x64 (tar.gz)
- MacOS x64 (zip)
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Unzip (or untar on Linux) and get started
On Linux:
wget -O azcopyv10.tar.gz https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-linux
tar -xzf azcopyv10.tar.gz
cd azcopy_linux_amd64_10.0.9
./azcopy
On Windows:
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-windows -OutFile .\azcopyv10.zip
Expand-Archive azcopyv10.zip -DestinationPath .
cd .\azcopy_windows_amd64_10.0.9
.\azcopy.exe
AzCopy supports two types of authentication. See the table below to see which type you need to use.
- Pre-signed URLs (URLs with Shared Access Signature aka. SAS tokens): Simply generate a SAS token from the Azure Portal, Storage Explorer, or one of the other Azure tools and append to the Blob path (container/virtual directory/blob path).
- Azure Active Directory Authentication : Add your user to the 'Blob Data Contributor' role in the Azure Portal, and log on to AzCopy using
azcopy login. To authenticate with MSI, useazcopy login --identity. Once logged in, you can simply use AzCopy commands without any SAS token appended to the path. e.g.azcopy cp https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/container/data /mydata --recursive
| Azure Storage service | Supported authentication methods |
|---|---|
| Blob storage | SAS tokens OR Azure Active Directory Authentication |
| File storage | SAS tokens |
| ADLS Gen2 | Azure Active Directory Authentication |
❗❗❗Note a SAS token is NOT an account key. SAS tokens are limited in scope and validity, and starts with a question mark which can be appended to a Blob URL. Here is an example:
?sv=2017-11-09&ss=bf&srt=co&sp=rwac&se=2018-11-16T03:59:09Z&st=2018-11-15T19:59:09Z&sip=10.102.166.17&spr=https,http&sig=k8xSm2K3crBbtNpfoxyvh9n%2BMjDTqRk2XpY8JYIAMaA%3D.
AzCopy is self-documenting. To list the available commands, run:
./azcopy -h
To view the help page and examples, run:
./azcopy <cmd> -h
# The general syntax
./azcopy <cmd> <arguments> --<flag-name>=<flag-value>
# Example:
./azcopy cp <source path> <destination path> --<flag-name>=<flag-value>
./azcopy cp "/path/to/local" "https://account.blob.core.windows.net/container?sastoken" --recursive=true
./azcopy cp "/mnt/myfile.txt" "https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myfile.txt?sv=2017-11-09&ss=bf&srt=co&sp=rwac&se=2018-11-16T03:59:09Z&st=2018-11-15T19:59:09Z&sip=10.102.166.17&spr=https,http&sig=k8xSm2K3crBbtNpfoxyvh9n%2BMjDTqRk2XpY8JYIAMaA%3D"
To see more examples:
./azcopy cp -h
Each transfer operation will create a Job for AzCopy to act on. You can view the history of jobs using the following command:
./azcopy jobs list
The job logs and data are located under the $HOME/.azcopy directory on Linux, and %USERPROFILE%.azcopy on Windows. You can clear the job data/logs if you wish after AzCopy completes the transfers.
The copy command can be used to transfer data from the source to the destination. The locat can be a:
- local path
- URL to Azure Blob/Virtual Directory/Container
- URL to Azure File/Directory/File Share
./azcopy <command> <source path> <destination path>
The following command will upload 1file.txt to the Block Blob at https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/1file.txt.
./azcopy cp /data/1file.txt "https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/1file.txt?sastokenhere"
The following command will upload all files under directory1 recursively to the path at https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/directory1.
./azcopy cp /data/directory1 "https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/directory1?sastokenhere" --recursive=true
The following command will upload all files directly under directory1 without recursing into sub-directories, to the path at https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/directory1.
./azcopy cp /data/directory1/* "https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/directory1?sastokenhere"
To upload into File storage, simply change the URI to Azure File URI with corresponding SAS token.
AzCopy by default uploads data into Block Blobs. However if a source file has .vhd extension, AzCopy will default to uploading to a Page Blob.
The following will download all Blob container contents into the local file system creating the directory mycontainer in the destination.
./azcopy cp "https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer?sastokenhere" /data/ --recursive=true
The following will download all Blob container contents into the local file system. mycontainer directory will not be created in the destination because the globbing pattern looks for all paths inside mycontainer in the source rather than the mycontainer container itself.
./azcopy cp "https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/*?sastokenhere" /data/ --recursive=true
The following command will download all txt files in the source to the directory1 path. Note that AzCopy will scan the entire source and filter for .txt files. This may take a while when you have thousands/millions of files in the source.
./azcopy cp "https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/directory1/*.txt?sastokenhere" /data/directory1
Copying data between two Azure Storage accounts make use of the PutBlockFromURL API, and does not use the client machine's network bandwidth. Data is copied between two Azure Storage servers. AzCopy simply orchestrates the copy operation.
./azcopy cp "https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/?sastokenhere" "https://myotheraccount.blob.core.windows.net/?sastokenhere" --recursive=true
Set the environment variable AZCOPY_CONCURRENCY_VALUE to configure the number of concurrent requests. This is set to 300 by default. Note that this does not equal to 300 parallel connections. Reducing this will limit the bandwidth, and CPU used by AzCopy.
To configure the proxy settings for AzCopy v10, set the environment variable https_proxy using the following command:
# For Windows:
set https_proxy=<proxy IP>:<proxy port>
# For Linux:
export https_proxy=<proxy IP>:<proxy port>
# For MacOS
export https_proxy=<proxy IP>:<proxy port>
For proxy authentication, use the following format:
export https_proxy=<user>:<pass>@<proxy IP>:<proxy port>
# or with a domain:
export https_proxy=<domain>%5C<user>:<pass>@<proxy IP>:<proxy port>
Set the environment variable 'AZCOPY_LOG_LOCATION' to a directory of your choice where there is plenty of disk space as logs for large data transfers may use up Gigabytes of space depending on the chosen log level.
AzCopy creates a log file for all the jobs. Look for clues in the logs to understand the problem. AzCopy will print UPLOADFAILED, COPYFAILED, and DOWNLOADFAILED strings for failures with the paths along with the error reason.
cat 04dc9ca9-158f-7945-5933-564021086c79.log | grep -i UPLOADFAILED
To view the job stats, run:
./azcopy jobs show <job-id>
To see the transfers of a specific status(Success or Failed), run:
./azcopy jobs show <job-id> --with-status=Failed
You can resume a failed/cancelled job using its identifier along with the SAS token(s), which are not persisted for security reasons.
./azcopy jobs resume <jobid> --source-sas ?sastokenhere --destination-sas ?sastokenhere
Raise an issue on this repository for any feedback or issue encountered.
- What is the difference between
syncandcopy?- The
copycommand is a simple transferring operation, it scans the source and attempts to transfer every single file/blob. The supported source/destination pairs are listed in the help message of the tool. On the other hand,syncmakes sure that whatever is present in the source will be replicated to the destination, and also whatever is not at the source will be deleted from the destination. If your goal is to simply move some files, thencopyis definitely the right command, since it offers much better performance. - For
sync, last modified times are used to determine whether to transfer the same file present at both the source and the destination. - If the use case is to incrementally transfer data, then
syncis the better choice, since only the modified/missing files are transferred.
- The
- Will
copyoverwrite my files?- By default, AzCopy will overwrite the files at the destination if they already exist. To avoid this behavior, please use the flag
--overwrite=false.
- By default, AzCopy will overwrite the files at the destination if they already exist. To avoid this behavior, please use the flag
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