I was using Azure VM and my subscription was disabled. there were some files that I was working on in the last few days without backup on my local device. now I got a link to the machine VHD but it's too big and my connection is very slow. Is there is any way to download only my files from that link without downloading the whole file?
my file is almost 1 MB and the image is 127 GB. I know that the best solution is to make another subscription but I only have a pre-paid card now any they don't accept that
If you have VM's backup you can perform a file level restore. If you have 'just a link' to VHD file unfortunately there is nothing you can do to download single file - sorry.
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I have a Windows 10 image backup from about 6 months ago that contains some code I need to recover.
The image backup was made on my prior PC, which has since suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure and was reimaged with Windows 10.
Is it possible to browse the old image backup and find and extract the folder(s) I need?
Simple, but ridiculously hard to find with Google if you don't know what to search for.
There are .vhdx files in the WindowsImageBackup folder
Find the .vhdx that represents the disk you want to mount/explore
Attach the .vhdx with diskpart or Disk Management
Assign a drive letter
Browse with File Explorer
Caveat: You might have to open a DOS cmd prompt in Admin mode and use diskpart to assign the drive a letter.
I am uploading files with AZCOPY (one by one as and when they are provided) to Azure Datalakes gen 2 and keep a track with Storage explorer and individual log of each file.
There have been 6253 file uploads and Storage explorer shows the same along with number of logs for each file upload
But when i use AZCOPY LIST it gives me 11254.
Making it difficult to script and automate.
Is there a logical explanation for this?
There is no access issue, in fact the same AZCOPY is working on copying the files
I have tried to redownload if that makes sense
This is a known bug, scheduled for fixing in our next release: https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-azcopy/issues/692
Some large disks containing hundreds of 30GB tar files have been prepared and ready to ship.
The disks have been prepared as BLOB using the WAImportExport tool.
The Azure share is expecting files.
Ideally we don't want to redo the disks as FILE instead of BLOB. Are we able to upload as BLOBs to one storage area and extract the millions of files from the tarballs to a FILE storage area without writing code?
Thanks
Kevin
azcopy will definitely do it and has been tested. We were able to move files from blobs to files using the CLI in Azure with the azcopy command.
The information provided below was proven not to be true.
Microsoft Partner told me yesterday there is no realistic way to convert Blobs to Files in the above-mentioned scenario.
Essentially, it is important to select either WAImportExport.exe Version 1 for BLOBS or WAImportExport.exe Version 2 for files. Information on this can be found at this location.
The mistake was easily made and done so by a number of people here: the link to the tool sent was to the binary version 1. Search results tended to direct users to version 1 but version 2 only appears only after deeper dig. Version 2 - seems to be an afterthought my Microsoft when they added the Files option to Azure. It's a pity they didn't use different binary names or build a switch into version 2 to do both and delete the version 1 offering.
I am looking for a utility to upload an 80 GB file (a VHD) to Azure blob storage. I have tried Azure Management Studio from Cerebrata which is a good tool, but the upload keeps failing. I tried Azure Storage Explorer also, without success. My internet provider is ATT Uverse and I get 16 Mpbs down and 1.4 Mbps up according to speedtest.net. This should be enough to upload the file in a few days, if my math is correct.
81,920 MB
1.4 Mbps= .175 MB/s
5.4 days
Is there a way to break a file into pieces and upload in parts to azure blob storage? Am I going to have to write my own C# client to upload the file? I could do this, but I was hoping to find a good tool that would do it for me.
Did you tried AzCopy tool? This tool is very fast. Check here :
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2012/12/03/azcopy-uploading-downloading-files-for-windows-azure-blobs.aspx
If that doesn't work, you have to write code to split the file and upload it.
You can take help of the below code :
http://tuvianblog.com/2011/06/28/how-to-upload-large-size-fileblob-to-azure-storage-using-asp-netc/
You might want to check out this post: Uploading a file in Azure Blob Storage.
It explains how you can upload any file to Blob storage with a PowerShell script.
I take it you've tried using the Azure Powershell to do it? the Add-AzureVhd command?
For more info check this out:
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/windows/common-tasks/upload-a-vhd/
Having said all this, I've tried to upload a 57GB vhd using this method and it keeps failing after about 40 mins or so, so I'm constantly having to resume the process. It worked fine 1st time for a test 20MB vhd I created though.
UDPATE: I got it to work eventually though powershell, the problem for me was the vhd file I was trying to upload, not the process I was using.
I am creating a Windows Phone 8 application. I have an image which is currently on my computer disk. I want to store that image in my isolated storage. The problem i am facing is that, that how i will load the image in my application so that i will store the image data in my isolated storage.
The problem is that, the image is located on my computer disk and when i attach the device and run the application it will try to find the file in local sandbox and hence i will get the exception.
System.Io.DirectoryNotFound
Any help will be great.
If I understand you correctly, you want to upload files from your computer to the isolated storage of your app?
I haven't tried it myself but you might want to take a look at Windows Phone Power Tools. According to their own site they let you "Upload / Download Files from IsolatedStorage".
Another option might be ISE (Isolated Storage Explorer).
If you want to access your files on your computer at runtime, I do not believe this is possible.