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Move a File from Azure File Storage to Azure Blob Storage

I have rather foolishly uploaded a vhd to Azure file storage thinking I can create a virtual machine from it only to find out it really needs to be in blob storage.

I know I can just upload it again - but it is very large and my upload speed is very slow.

My question is - can I move a file from file storage to blob storage without downloading/uploading again? I.e. is there anything in the Azure portal UI to do it, or even a PowerShell command?

Solution

  • You can try AzCopy:

    AzCopy.exe /Source:{*URL to source container*} /Dest:{*URL to dest container*} /SourceKey:{*key1*} /DestKey:{*key2*} /S

    When copying from File Storage to Blob Storage, the default blob type is block blob, user can specify option /BlobType:page to change the destination blob type.

    AzCopy by default copies data between two storage endpoints asynchronously. Therefore, the copy operation will run in the background using spare bandwidth capacity that has no SLA in terms of how fast a blob will be copied, and AzCopy will periodically check the copy status until the copying is completed or failed. The /SyncCopy option ensures that the copy operation will get consistent speed.