A Command Line tool for downloading blob from Azure Storage and logging download completed back to Azure Storage
Time to time, I had to download blob from Windows Azure Storage for my Windows Azure Projects but so many time, when I was no in Azure VM, there was no way to be sure that my blob was downloaded successfully. To solve this problem I decided to simply write a command line tool which can download any file from Windows Azure storage and after download is completed, I also wanted to get confirmation that download is completed in a log file at the Azure Storage.
To make it very simple solution, I just created a command line application which use Windows Azure Storage Credentials to download blob from Azure Storage and after download is completed, the same application upload a log file to Azure blob storage to confirm that download is completed.
To use this tool you can create a batch file as below:
@REM Setting up Azure Stroage Credentials
set azurestoragename=happybuddha
set azurestoragekey=*******************************************************==
set storagecontainername=xyz
@REM Download blob name
set filename=apache-tomcat-7.0.19-windows-x64.zip
azurepackagedownloader.exe "%azurestoragename%" "%azurestoragekey%" "%storagecontainername%" "%filename%"
Once you will launch above batch file, the above apache-tomcat-7.0.19-windows-x64.zip will be download from the Azure Storage name "happybuddha" from container xyz. After the download completed, a log file will be uploaded to same "xyz" container in Azure Storage "happybuddha" as below:
If you look at the log file it look like as below:
8/9/2011 5:53:21 AM: Application Started......
8/9/2011 5:53:21 AM: Connection to Azure Storage : SUCCCESS.....
File Download Started....8/9/2011 5:53:38 AM: Transfer progress percentage = 1 - 0.00KB/s
8/9/2011 5:53:38 AM: Transfer progress percentage = 2 - 0.00KB/s
8/9/2011 5:53:38 AM: Transfer progress percentage = 3 - 914.36KB/s
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8/9/2011 5:53:43 AM: Transfer completed. Press any key to continue.
8/9/2011 5:53:43 AM: File apache-tomcat-7.0.19-windows-x64.zip Download Completely!!!
I got some kick start for this tool from Kevin blogs as below:
Using above blog I took the base BlobTransfer class written by Kevin and just added some code to create a commnadline application which can satisfy my need. You can download from the same tool from codeplex as below: