Cannot use azcopy from one blob to another with SAS

Question

I have 2 blob storages, one in eastus, one in canadaeast, and I want to copy one .vhd from eastus to canadaeast. I go to the the eastus, on the blob I want to copy. I open the contextual menu, click on generate SAS. I generate the Token with read/write/create/delete rights and copy the URL provided.

I follow the documentation on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azcopy-blobs

I downloaded azcopy, and type:

 azcopy copy "source?SASToken" "destination"

I get :

===== RESPONSE ERROR (ServiceCode=ResourceNotFound) =====
Description=The specified resource does not exist.
RequestId:60890ddf-601e-0040-5a4b-62d6ba000000
Time:2019-09-03T11:34:08.5367479Z, Details:
   Code: ResourceNotFound

I generate a SAS token with read/write/create/delete rights on the destination account, then type:

azcopy copy "source?SASToken" "destination?SASToken"

I get the following result:

Job a30eaae3-1dfd-f94d-5237-002ababea22c summary
Elapsed Time (Minutes): 0.0334
Total Number Of Transfers: 1
Number of Transfers Completed: 0
Number of Transfers Failed: 1
Number of Transfers Skipped: 0
TotalBytesTransferred: 0
Final Job Status: Failed

In the generated log file, I get

   RESPONSE Status: 400 The value for one of the HTTP headers is not in the correct format.

Content-Length: [325]
Content-Type: [application/xml]
Date: [Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:07:21 GMT]
Server: [Windows-Azure-Blob/1.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0]
X-Ms-Error-Code: [InvalidHeaderValue]
X-Ms-Request-Id: [1ef8bbe7-a01e-0019-313f-62d33c000000]
X-Ms-Version: [2018-11-09]

I am stuck : I don't know how to copy one blob to another on a different location, and everything I tried failed.

What do I do wrong? Can you help?

Nancy Xiong Nancy Xiong · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-04T07:45:23

You should note the following limitations in the current azcopy release when you copy blobs between storage accounts.

Only accounts that don't have a hierarchical namespace are supported.

You have to append a SAS token to each source URL. If you provide authorization credentials by using Azure Active Directory (AD), you can omit the SAS token only from the destination URL.

Premium block blob storage accounts don't support access tiers. Omit the access tier of a blob from the copy operation by setting the s2s-preserve-access-tier to false (For example: --s2s-preserve-access-tier=false).

You could verify if the two storage accounts meet the above requirements, especially the third one. I can reproduce your issue when I copy blobs from storageV2 to storageV1, then I append the --s2s-preserve-access-tier=false, it works.

Cannot use azcopy from one blob to another with SAS

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