title: How to clone blob container and contents
body: <p><strong>Summary</strong><br>
  I have picked up support for a fairly old website which stores a bunch of blobs in Azure. What I would like to do is duplicate all of my blobs from live to the test environment so I can use them without affecting users. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Architecture</strong><br>
  The website is a mix of VB webforms and MVC, communicating with an Azure blob service (e.g. <a href="https://x.blob.core.windows.net/LiveBlobs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://x.blob.core.windows.net/LiveBlobs</a>).</p>
  
  <p>The test site mirrors the live setup, except it points to a different blob container in the same storage account (e.g. <a href="https://x.blob.core.windows.net/TestBlobs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://x.blob.core.windows.net/TestBlobs</a>)</p>
  
  <p><strong>Questions</strong>  </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Can I copy all of the blobs from live to test without downloading
  them? They would need to maintain the same names.</li>
  <li>How do I work out what it will cost to do this? The live blob
  storage is roughly 130GB, but it should just be copying the data within the same data centre right?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>Things I've investigated</strong><br>
  I've spent quite some time searching for an answer, but what I've found deals with <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8582145/copying-storage-data-from-one-azure-account-to-another">copying between storage accounts</a> or <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14152087/copying-one-azure-blob-to-another-blob-in-azure-storage-client-2-0">copying single blobs</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I've also found <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-use-azcopy/#_blob-copy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AzCopy</a> which <a href="http://pcfromdc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/copying-blobs-between-azure-storage.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">looks promising</a> but it looks like it would copy the files one by one so I'm worried it would end up taking a long time and costing a lot.</p>
  
  <p>I am fairly new to Azure so please forgive me if this is a silly question or I've missed out some important details. I'm more than happy to add any extra information should you need it.</p>