Journal folder in azcopy for linux

Question

I'm trying to upload files to Azure blob storage using azcopy on Debian Jessie and I want to do that in a parallel manner (many azcopy instances in the same time). Currently it's failing with

An error occurred while reading the restart journal from "/root/Microsoft/Azure/AzCopy". Detailed error: The process cannot access the file '/root/Microsoft/Azure/AzCopy/AzCopyCheckpoint.jnl' because it is being used by another process.

According to the docs there's supposed to be /Z:[journal-file-folder] flag to specify different journal path, but that doesn't work on Linux, fails with

The syntax of the command is incorrect. Unrecognized command or argument

I've tried all the variations I could think of, but no luck. Any ideas?

Zhaoxing Lu Zhaoxing Lu · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-01T12:18:34

Per document here, please use --resume option to specify a custom location for the journal file.

If you want to specify a custom location for the journal file:

azcopy \
    --source /mnt/myfiles \
    --destination https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer \
    --dest-key key \
    --resume "/mnt/myjournal"

Journal folder in azcopy for linux

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