[Storage] Retrieving blob copy status

[valencik]

How can I check the status of a async blob copy?
The az storage blob copy cancel appears to be the only blob command to take a --copy-id as returned from a az storage blob copy start command.
I would like to be able to get some sense of progress on the copy operation.

A nice bonus would be being able to optionally block/wait on the copy operation.

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Update by @troydai on 8/29/2017

Requested features:

1. Wait on blob copy operation. [https://github.com/Add wait/no-wait support to Commands #1528]
2. Get copy operation status.

[tjprescott]

Hi @valencik you can check the copy status using the az storage file|blob show command. It will show the copy properties of the last copy operation.

I'm adding your suggestion to wait on the copy operation to issue #1528.

Are you using the copy start command or the copy start-batch command?

[valencik]

Thanks @tjprescott! We are using copy start-batch as recommended in #1527.

Just tested the following and it worked great!

az storage blob show \
--name Microsoft.Compute/Images/vhds/capture-1234-osDisk.hexcodestuffvhd \
--container-name system \
--account-name myAccountName

Perhaps a note in the help output or an alias under az storage blob copy would be useful. Particularly because that is where the copy_id is given, and where the cancel operation lives.

You can close this issue. Thanks again.

[u6006]

• copy info's still missing when using table output format (table output format has limited info for most command-lines for now (v2.0.6))
• hope you can bring the old command-line "azure storage blob copy show" back

[alexeyshishkin01]

hello, all!
is there any news regarding the status of blob copy?
I use azure-cli (2.0.15) which is still missing this functionality.

[troydai]

I'm reopening this issue and put this on the backlog. It is not a commitment to any of these requested features, but we will review the overall scenarios when we have a chance.

[tjprescott]

There is no reason to bring back azure storage blob copy show as this information is returned as part of az storage blob show.

[alexeyshishkin01]

az storage blob show is only for static info about the blob:

root@Alexey-HP:/root# az storage blob list --container-name centoscontainer --account-name pgproimages
Name                                        Blob Type    Blob Tier         Length  Content Type              Last Modified
------------------------------------------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ------------------------  -------------------------
pgpro-9.6.3.2-enterprise-centos-7-rev4.vhd  PageBlob                  53688140288  application/octet-stream  2017-08-29T16:21:14+00:00
pgpro-9.6.3.2-enterprise-centos-7-rev5.vhd  PageBlob                  53688140288  application/octet-stream  2017-08-29T23:41:18+00:00

root@Alexey-HP:/root# az storage blob show --container-name centoscontainer --name pgpro-9.6.3.2-enterprise-centos-7-rev4.vhd --account-name pgproimages
Name                                        Blob Type    Blob Tier         Length  Content Type              Last Modified
------------------------------------------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ------------------------  -------------------------
pgpro-9.6.3.2-enterprise-centos-7-rev4.vhd  PageBlob                  53688140288  application/octet-stream  2017-08-29T16:21:14+00:00

to find out the status of copy operation I have to run 'az storage blob show' repeatedly and compare 'Last Modified' column value
is there any other way to know about the status of blob copy?

[troydai]

@alexeyshishkin01 az storage blob show is the right way to get blob copy status. The command uses "Get Blob Properties" rest operation, which is the recommended approach: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/copy-blob.

[tjprescott]

@alexeyshishkin01 if I do a az storage blob show/list with JSON output format, I see that copy status is included as part of the blob's properties. If you want to project this into table or TSV format, you can do so with --query.

@troydai I would not advocate for the revival of Xplat's blob copy show command, though we could consider adding copy status to the default table format.

[alexeyshishkin01]

ok, thanks, but even JSON output is workaround - one has to get it repeatedly to reach the status 'success'
compare it with progress bar of the command 'az storage blob upload'

[bear454]

Consider adding a note to the az storage blob copy documentation about where to check the status of the copy operation.