I have a BizSpark account for my company and we need to transfer a big images file to be used in our website database later. The file is about 550 GB, and I need to transfer it to one of free BizSpark Azure accounts. We are new to BizSpark and Azure, so any tips will be much appreciated. The ones who will transfer the file asks us to provide them with FTP details like server name, username, and password.
Thanks a lot.
I'll give you two ways to upload content to Azure Storage.
1) Using Free Storage Tools.These are the two that i use but you have other options including paid ones.
2) Using powershell
Here's a simple script I'm borrowing from this article.
# Azure subscription-specific variables.
$storageAccountName = "storage-account-name"
$containerName = "container-name"
# Find the local folder where this PowerShell script is stored.
$currentLocation = Get-location
$thisfolder = Split –parent $currentLocation
# Upload files in data subfolder to Azure.
$localfolder = "$thisfolder\data"
$destfolder = "data"
$storageAccountKey = (Get-AzureStorageKey -StorageAccountName $storageAccountName).Primary
$blobContext = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $storageAccountName -StorageAccountKey $storageAccountKey
$files = Get-ChildItem $localFolder foreach($file in $files)
{
$fileName = "$localFolder\$file"
$blobName = "$destfolder/$file"
write-host "copying $fileName to $blobName"
Set-AzureStorageBlobContent -File $filename -Container $containerName -Blob $blobName -Context $blobContext -Force
}
write-host "All files in $localFolder uploaded to $containerName!"
