March 2015 Entries

Copy Files From You Local Computer To An Azure VM and Back

Do you need to copy files from your local workstation to Azure Virtual Machines? No need to use FTP, or send files on cloud drives or blobs. The only thing you need to do is to access your local drives from your cloud VM and pull the files over. You can also use the same approach to pull files from your cloud VM locally. Here is how it’s done. First, logon to Microsoft Azure and browse to your Virtual Machine from the portal. From there, select your Virtual Machine and click on the Connect button ......
Posted On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 8:42 PM | Comments (0)

How To Create A Powershell Script To Backup Your Azure Blobs

In this post I will show you how easy it is to create a PowerShell script using Visual Studio that can backup your Azure Blobs. The same concept can be applied to backup Azure Tables and SQL Database. To successfully follow this example, you will need a few things. First, we are coding in C# with Visual Studio 2012. The actual backup operation is rather complex, so we will be using the free API provided by Blue Syntax (http://www.bluesyntaxconsu... to perform the actual backup operation. The ......
Posted On Thursday, March 5, 2015 11:54 AM | Comments (0)

Backing up Azure Blobs

As customers adopt the Microsoft Azure platform, the need to backup Azure Blobs is becoming increasingly important. That’s because Azure Blobs are used by both the Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) components of Microsoft Azure. In fact, Azure Blobs are also becoming more popular with local software applications that need a central location to store configuration information and application logs. Since Blobs are a form of data, there is a need to back them up. Until ......
Posted On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 5:50 PM | Comments (0)