We are glad to announce that AzCopy new version V2.3 has been released at aka.ms/AzCopy.This new version will take advantage of the new Read Access Geo Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) functionality and include support for reading Geo-Redundant account’s data in the secondary region. For RA-GRS, please find details at Windows Azure Storage Redundancy Options and Read Access Geo Redundant Storage.
After enabling RA-GRS in the azure portal, if the primary endpoint is “myaccount.<service>.core.windows.net”, the secondary endpoint will be “myaccount-secondary.<service>.core.windows.net”.
Here are the samples of AzCopy reading blobs from the secondary region (Attention: You cannot copy data to the secondary region).
- Download blobs from an RA-GRS account’s secondary endpoint to your local disk.
AzCopy https://myaccount-secondary.blob.core.windows.net/mynewcontainer/ d:\test\ /sourcekey:key /s
- Copy blob from an RA-GRS account’s secondary endpoint to the primary endpoint.
AzCopy https://myaccount-secondary.blob.core.windows.net/mynewcontainer/ https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mybackupcontainer/ /sourcekey:key /destkey:key abc.txt
Furthermore, AzCopy V2.3 has made various performance improvements, and has been updated to use Azure Storage Client library v3.0.3.
Zhiming