Upload all files from local storage to Azure Blob Storage

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I am currently struggling to upload multiple files from the local storage to the Azure Blob Storage, I was wondering if anyone could help me, below is the code i was previously using to upload a single zip file.

    private void SaveZip(string id, string fileName, string contentType, byte[] data)
    {
        // Create a blob in container and upload image bytes to it
        var blob = this.GetContainer().GetBlobReference(fileName);

        blob.Properties.ContentType = contentType;

        // Create some metadata for this image
        var metadata = new NameValueCollection();
        metadata["Id"] = id;
        metadata["Filename"] = fileName;
    }

    SaveZip(
        Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
        zipFile.FileName,
        zipFile.PostedFile.ContentType,
        zipFile.FileBytes);

Thanks, Sami.

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What's the issue you're having? – Greg
Sorry my question wasn't clear I have multiple files in a directory, I would like to provide the path of the directory then the code uploads all of the files. – Sami
How does this upload the file to Blob storage? You never do anything with the byte array. – CodeThug
I'm not sure entirely I followed a tutorial to wire up that code, it seemed to work, as I used a blob storage explorer and te files were display in the blob storage as if they had been uploaded – Sami

5 Answers

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It's quite straightforward with Set-AzureStorageBlobContent from azure storage powershell.

ls -File -Recurse | Set-AzureStorageBlobContent -Container upload

MSDN documentation : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn408487.aspx

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I don't think there's any build-in methods you can use to upload multiple files to the BLOB. What you can do is to upload them one by one, or parallel.

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If you're just starting to work with Blob Storage, I'd encourage you to take a look at the "How to" article we've published. Specifically, the section on "How to Upload a Blob into a Container" should be helpful. Beyond that, Shaun is correct - there is no built-in support in the StorageClient library for uploading multiple files at once, but you can certainly upload them one-by-one.

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If your need is just to get it done, and not to make an app out of it, you should consider checking out Cloud Storage Studio.

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Like CodeThug said, "You never do anything with the byte array". You have to upload the data stream to the blob and you are done.