How to move a Blob to another Container

In this post, I am going to share a method that moves a blob to another container.

This content applies for:

• Azure Storage Accounts.
• .NET Core 2.2.
• Different containers on the same storage account.

Steps

1. I have a CloudStorageAccount object that represents the Azure Storage Account.
2. I have a CloudBlobClient object that represents a Blob service.
3. In the constructor, CloudStorageAccount and CloudBlobClient are initialized.
4. MoveBlob method creates a reference of source container and destination container using GetContainerReference method of CloudBlobClient object.
5. I get a blob reference using GetBlockBlobReference method using the previous containers references.
6. Finally, I invoke StartCopyAsync method in order to copy the blob to another container, then, the source blob is deleted.

Comments

[Loïc Sharma]

Do note that the copy operation may not be complete by the time "MoveBlob" completes. You will need to poll "destinationBlob.CopyState.Status" (after refreshing attributes using "destinationBlob.FetchAttributesAsync()")!