Azure File Movement
- Azure has tools designed to help you move individual files or small file groups.
- Tools are AzCopy, Azure Storage Explorer, and Azure File Sync.
Azure AzCopy
- AzCopy is a command-line utility that you can use to copy blobs or files to or from your storage account.
- With AzCopy, you can upload files, download files, copy files between storage accounts, and even synchronize files.
- AzCopy can even be configured to work with other cloud providers to help move files back and forth between clouds.
- Synchronizing blobs or files with AzCopy is one-direction synchronization.
Azure Storage Explorer
- Azure Storage Explorer is UI app to manage files and blobs in your Azure Storage Account.
- It works on Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems and uses AzCopy on the backend to perform all of the file and blob management tasks.
- With Storage Explorer, you can upload to Azure, download from Azure, or move between storage accounts.
Azure File Sync
- Azure File Sync is a tool that lets you centralize your file shares in Azure Files and keep the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of a Windows file server.
- Azure File Sync additionally has the ability to transform Windows Server into a quick cache of your Azure file share.
- Once you install Azure File Sync on your local Windows server, it will automatically stay bi-directionally synced with your files in Azure.
- You can use any protocol that's available on Windows Server to access your data locally, including SMB, NFS, and FTPS.
- Have as many caches as you need across the world.
- Replace a failed local server by installing Azure File Sync on a new server in the same datacenter.
- Configure cloud tiering so the most frequently accessed files are replicated locally, while infrequently accessed files are kept in the cloud until requested.