Powershell Script to Backup the file system folders/files to Azure blob storage

One of the requirement from the customer was backup the important application files to azure blob storage and delete the backups older than 7 days. I have written a below script to automate the task.

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#Script: Backup the files to azure blob storage
#Auther : Ramasankar Molleti
#This will make sure to run the powershell as administrator for Azcopy command
if (!([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) { Start-Process powershell.exe "-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File `"$PSCommandPath`"" -Verb RunAs; exit }

Write-Host "started"
#Source of the file
$source = "Path of the files"

#Initializing a destination file
$destination = "Temporary Destinationpath
#Adding current date to the file
$date = Get-Date
$date = $date.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")
$destination = $destination+$date
$destination =$destination+'.zip'
write-host $destination
Write-Host "Compressing is in progress" -ForegroundColor Yellow
#This assembly is used to compress the folder
Add-Type -Assembly 'System.IO.Compression.FileSystem'
[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory($source, $destination,'Optimal',$false)
Write-Host "Compression is done" -ForegroundColor Green
# Backup the compressed Appplication folders/files to blob storage
Write-Host "Begin backup to azure blob" -ForegroundColor Yellow
AzCopy /Source:D:\temp /Dest:https://yourstorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/Provideyourazurecontainer /DestKey:yourazurblobstorageprimarykeydetails
Write-Host "Complete Backup to AZure Blob" -ForegroundColor Green
#Define the source storage account and context.
$SourceStorageAccountName = "Provide your storage account"
$SourceStorageAccountKey = "Provide your storage account primary/master key"
$SrcContainerName = "Your AzureContainername"
$SourceContext = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $SourceStorageAccountName -StorageAccountKey $SourceStorageAccountKey
#$blobs = Get-AzureStorageBlob -Container $SrcContainerName -Context $SourceContext
#Set the threshold value
$isOldDate = [DateTime]::UtcNow.AddDays(-7)
#Get a reference to blobs in the source container.
$blobs = Get-AzureStorageBlob -Container $SrcContainerName -Context $SourceContext | Where-Object { $_.LastModified.UtcDateTime -lt $isOldDate }
$blobs| Remove-AzureStorageBlob
Write-Host "end" 

 

Hope you enjoyed the post!

Cheers

Ramasankar Molleti

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