Azure Data Factory supports preserving metadata during file copy

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Published

Dec 12, 2019

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • December 2019
    General Availability

Product

Azure Blob Storage
Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Lake Storage

Tag

Features

Category

Storage
Analytics
Databases

Description

Azure Data Factory copy activity now supports preserving metadata during file copy among Amazon S3, Azure Blob, and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. The following attributes can be copied along with files:

  • All customer-specified metadata.
  • These five data store built-in system properties—contentType, contentLanguage, contentEncoding, contentDisposition, and cacheControl.

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