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kudlatiger
kudlatiger

Reputation: 3258

What is the best way to transfer my files to Azure virtual machine?

What is the best way to transfer my files to the Azure virtual machine? I tried below options, but no luck

Option 1: AzCopy

I am aware of AzCopy which helps to copy the files to a storage account, however, my requirement is to copy the file from my local machine (on-premise network share) to cloud Azure Virtual Machine disk.My Virtual Machine's are using managed disks. Hence I do not think I can use AzCopy

Option 2: Azure File Share

I also thought of using File Share option, but I am sure if it's right choice.

Basically I want to automate the copy process to target VM's.

Advice appreciated.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 20717

Answers (5)

Tempstudio
Tempstudio

Reputation: 1

Since this question shows up for general usage of uploading files to Azure, not just for OP's on-prem special use case, I found that just using scp is much easier than using Google Drive or Azure File Share.

scp -i path/to/your/sshkey.pem path/to/your/localfile username@[YOUR_VM_PUBLIC_IP]:/destination/path/on/vm

For example:

scp -i ~/sshkey.pem ./server-binary-release.zip [email protected]:/home/azureuser/

Upvotes: 0

Usman Raza
Usman Raza

Reputation: 307

The best way to transfer files on Vm is using google drive:

  1. upload your files on google drive

  2. Get id from shareable Link

  3. login to your VM

  4. finally run this command

    wget --no-check-certificate 'https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=this_is_the_id_of_files_on_drive' -O new_Name_any.rar

Thats it

Upvotes: 2

Oleh Tarasenko
Oleh Tarasenko

Reputation: 612

The best way would be to create a file share between two machines.

First, you need to Allow Inbound connection to your Azure VM from on-premises. Perhaps this is could be the case in your way, please go through this article, for enabling correct port if you don't want to expose everything.

Second, you should create a network drive.

Last, create a scheduler task with XCopy or PowerShell.

You can even create a Hybrid Worker in Automation Account for running your job from the Cloud to on-premises.

Upvotes: 2

NotFound
NotFound

Reputation: 6102

Sounds like Azure File Sync is what you are after. It's a service that allows you to install agents on a VM that'll take care of syncing up with an Azure File Share. The following documentation gives a good overview on how to set it up and its capabilities.

Upvotes: 3

Abdel Aneddame
Abdel Aneddame

Reputation: 21

You can use Azure File share to map a permanent drive into your local machine. You will need to make sure that SMB port isn't blocked within your firewall.

You can use the following Azure powershell command:

New-PSDrive -Name "S" -Root "<Your_StorageAccountName>.file.core.windows.net/" -Persist -PSProvider "Registry"

Upvotes: 1

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