Azure Storage Data Movement Library Preview Gets Better with More Features

Microsoft has released Azure Storage data movement library for .NET as a result of large number of customers requesting programmatic access to AzCopy. The library is based on the core data movement framework that powers AzCopy. Developers will be able to make use of the library for various scenarios such as following

Uploading, downloading and copying data between Microsoft Azure Blob and File Storage
Migrating data from other cloud providers such as AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage
Backing up Azure Storage data

Zhiming Yuan, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft has provided a sample which demonstrates the steps required to uploaad a blob. You will be able to install the first preview of the library from Nuget or download the source code from GitHub.

The list of features included with Azure Storage Data Movement Library Preview are as following

Support data transfer for Azure Storage abstraction: Blob
Support data transfer for Azure Storage abstraction: File
Download, upload, copy single object
Control the number of concurrent operations
Synchronous and asynchronous copying
Define the number of concurrent operations
Define the suffix of the user agent
Set the content type
Set the Access Condition to conditionally copy objects, for example: copy objects changed since certain date
Validate content MD5
Download specific blob snapshot
Track transfer progress: bytes transferred, number of success, fail, skip files
Recover (Set/Get transfer checkpoint)
Transfer Error handling (transfer exception and error code)
Client-side logging