At the time of writing this, there is no API to rename an Azure Storage blob in one operation. You have to copy the blob and delete the original one after the copy process completes.
You can vote for the feature here: Rename blobs without needing to copy them
Until then you can use my convenience Rename-AzureStorageBlob cmdlet:
function Rename-AzureStorageBlob {
[CmdletBinding()]
Param
(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true, Position = 0)]
[Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Common.Storage.ResourceModel.AzureStorageBlob]$Blob,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true, Position = 1)]
[string]$NewName
)
Process {
$blobCopyAction = Start-AzureStorageBlobCopy `
-ICloudBlob $Blob.ICloudBlob `
-DestBlob $NewName `
-Context $Blob.Context `
-DestContainer $Blob.ICloudBlob.Container.Name
$status = $blobCopyAction | Get-AzureStorageBlobCopyState
while ($status.Status -ne 'Success') {
$status = $blobCopyAction | Get-AzureStorageBlobCopyState
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 50
}
$Blob | Remove-AzureStorageBlob -Force
}
}
It accepts the blob as pipeline input so you can pipe the result of the Get-AzureStorageBlob to it and just provide a new name:
$connectionString = 'DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName....' $storageContext = New-AzureStorageContext -ConnectionString $connectionString Get-AzureStorageBlob -Container 'MyContainer' -Context $storageContext -Blob 'myBlob.txt' | Rename-AzureStorageBlob -NewName 'MyNewBlob.txt'
You can also download the script from my GitHub repository.
