How to backup Datalake Gen1 Storage to local storage using Powershell or CLI

Question

We need to download /backup blobs (files) stored in Azure Data Lage Gen1 storage onto an Azure VM mount point. since the data in approx. 10 TB we want a programmatical option like Azure CLI or equivalent option to perform this task. Please suggest if this is possible.

Answer 1

@Accounts - Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.

Yes, it is possible to backup blobs stored in Azure Data Lake Gen1 storage onto an Azure VM mount point (Data Disks) using Azure CLI or Powershell.

For more details, checkout How to move data from azure data lake to windows virtual machine addressing similar issue.

These are the option available to load or move data from Azure Data Lake Storage:

The following visual illustrates the guidelines to choose the various Azure data transfer tools depending upon the network bandwidth available for transfer, data size intended for transfer, and frequency of the transfer.

For more details, refer to Choose an Azure solution for data transfer.
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