@simplrjs/azure-storage-backup

CLI tool to backup Azure storage account to file system.

Get started

npm install @simplrjs/azure-storage-backup -g

Features

• Retrieves statistics of your Azure storage account.
• Downloads blobs from Azure storage account.
• Checks for missing files in your file system after download.
• Allows you to define a count of downloads performed concurrently.
• Allows you to define a count of failed download retries.

Command line

Usage

azure-storage-backup -h

Commands

Command	Description
init	Generates a configuration file.
stats	Provides a statistics about blobs in Azure Storage account containers.
check	Checks if all blobs from Azure Storage were downloaded to your file system.
sync	Downloads all blobs that are missing in your file system.

Arguments

Argument	Type	Default	Description
config	string	process.cwd();	Config file path.
container	string	-	Performs an action on a specific container instead of all Azure storage account.
noCache	boolean	false	Prevents using cached values from previously performed actions.

Config

You can generate configuration using CLI command init:

azure-storage-backup init

It will also add a JSON schema to your generated configuration JSON.

Default configuration file name is backup.config.json.

Property	Type	Default	Description
storageAccount(*)	string	-	Name of your Azure storage account.
storageAccessKey(*)	string	-	A key to access your Azure storage account.
storageHost	string	-	Azure storage account host.
outDir	string	process.cwd();	An output directory for downloaded blobs from your storage account.
maxRetriesCount	number	3	Max retries count for failed operations (container blobs list fetching or blobs downloading).
logPath	string	process.cwd();(1)	Path to log file.
simultaneousDownloadsCount	number	5	Count of concurrently performed blob downloads.
noLogFile	boolean	false	Prevents to logging CLI activities to a log file.

(*) - Required properties.

(1) - Default log file name is .backup-log.