Moving Data into Azure Storage
Learn how to move data into Azure storage in this lesson.
How to move data into Azure storage?
Moving data into Azure can be accomplished through various methods, depending on the volume of data, the source location, and the desired destination in Azure. This lesson will focus on the most important and commonly used ways of moving data into Azure storage.
AzCopy tool
AzCopy is a command-line tool that you can use to copy files to Azure Blob Storage or Azure Files. You can also use AzCopy to copy data from an on-premises location to Azure. It supports various scenarios, such as uploading data to Azure Storage, downloading data from Azure Storage, and copying data between Azure Storage accounts.
Assuming the command is not a copy command, we replace copy with whichever command we want to work with. We can use azcopy
command together with the options below
sync
move ...