Is there a way to mount an Azure blob account as a drive in a linux machine, and have the files show up as file blobs in the Azure portal? I know I can mount an Azure blob as a disk, but when I'm done, I just have a disk. I'm looking to backup a few critical files from an Azure VM, and don't really want to rig up SDK calls. I'd rather a cron rsync a directory -- added benefit: it prunes. I'm familiar with rclone and AzCopy, but both require I bake azure secrets into the command line. Is there a blob mount way to do it instead of a separate install?
You can use blobfuse to mount a Blob storage container on Linux and access data. Blobfuse is a virtual file system driver for Azure Blob Storage, which allows you to access your existing block blob data in your Storage account through the Linux file system. Azure Blob Storage is an object storage service and therefore does not have a hierarchical namespace. Blobfuse provides this namespace using the virtual directory scheme with the use of forward-slash '/' as a delimiter.
there is Mount for Files
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-ca/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction
Do not try Mount with Windows SMB DISASTER!!!
Mount Azure File storage on Linux VMs using SMB
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/mount-azure-file-storage-on-linux-using-smb
ONE MORE TIME SMB= DISASTER!!!!
there are 3rd party tools like for BLOBs
https://www.cloudberrylab.com/
https://www.cloudberrylab.com/backup/linux.aspx
personally I look to develop by myself app and backup on demand not as permanent disk attached Hard to secure...
READ HERE
https://www.google.ca/search?q=hack+smb+share
goofys added support for azure blob: https://github.com/kahing/goofys/blob/master/README-azure.md#azure-blob-storage
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I am trying to upload a 1tb file to azure blob storage. but the file is on a Linux server. Is there anyway I can directly connect and upload this?
how do I connect to a Linux server and upload to the BLOB without using ADF? Is there any other way? Can this be done with AZ copy utility tool?
is there any faster approach to just uploading to the blob? Usually I upload it from local drives, but now I want to connect to a Linux server
You can mount the Blob Storage as a drive on your Linux server using Blobfuse which is a virtual file system driver for Azure Blob storage. Blobfuse allows you to access your existing block blob data in your storage account through the Linux file system. Blobfuse uses the virtual directory scheme with the forward-slash '/' as a delimiter.
You can read more about this here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-how-to-mount-container-linux.
Alternately you can also use AzCopy, Azure CLI tools and even cross-platform Azure PowerShell to upload the data.
I know this is possible to link Azure blob to our local computer but can't remember how
My goal is to make possible to access blob like it is local disk, for example here i can access to a blob from local desktop
edit: I don't want to use azure storage explorer
Firstly there is a charge way to mount blob to local, you could refer to this blog: Use CloudBerry Drive to create a local mapped network drive to Azure Blob Storage.
Except this, you could choose to use Rclone to implement this. Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories. However fro now this service could not Run mount as a daemon, means could not mount automatically with system startup.
I mount one container to my local.
In fact, it's possible using Azure Files. You can mount it using Powershell or map a network drive:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-how-to-use-files-windows
EDIT: Full answer:
Use the storage account name prepended with AZURE\ as the username and a storage account key as the password:
Hello i am actually working on Azure services and i want to know if it's possible to work with a azure blob storage as a virtual machine hard drive? If possible can we by the inclusion of the virtual machine include the blob storage in a VNet?
you cannot add storage as a network resource but you can add a new virtual disk backed by your blob storage. This link has more details
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-windows-attach-disk-portal?toc=%2fazure%2fvirtual-machines%2fwindows%2ftoc.json
if it's possible to work with a azure blob storage as a virtual
machine hard drive?
Do you mean mount azure blob storage on Azure VM? If is, the answer is no. You could not mount blob storage to a VM. You could download/upload blob data to your VMs . You also could mount Azure File Shares to VMs. Azure File share supports SMB. When you mount Azure File shares on your VMs, you could use them like as hard drives.
I've created two virtual machines on Window Azure Portal.
Is that possible to access azure blob storage through network shared files (UNC path) between these virtual machines?
Thanks
This new feature may be of some interest.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2014/05/12/introducing-microsoft-azure-file-service.aspx
Looks like you can create a new share that's backed by azure blob and then mount it on give vm's.
Have a look at http://azuredrive.codeplex.com/
It allows you to mount Blob Storage Accounts as Mapped Drives.
How would I write to a tmp/temp directory in windows azure website? I can write to a blob, but i'm using an NPM that requires me to give it file names so that it can directly write to those filenames.
Are you using Cloud Services (PaaS) or Virtual Machines (IaaS).
If PaaS, look at Windows Azure Local Storage. This option gives you up to 250gb of disk space per core. Its a great location for temporary storage of information in a way that traditional apps will be familiar with. However, its not persistent so if you put anything there you need to make sure will be available if the VM instance gets repaved, then copy it to Blob storage. Also, this storage is specific to a given role instance. So if you have two instances of the same role, they each have their own local storage buckets.
Alternatively, you can use Azure Drive, which allows you to keep the information persisted, but still doesn't allow multiple parallel writes.
If IaaS, then you can just mount a data disk to the VM and write to it directly. Data disks are already persisted to blob storage so there's little risk of data loss.
Just from my understanding and please correct me if anything wrong.
In Windows Azure Web Site, the content of your website will be stored in blob storage and mounted as a drive, which will be used for all instances your web site is using. And since it's in blob storage it's persistent. So if you need the local file system I think you can use the folders under your web site root path. But I don't think you can use the system tmp or temp folder.