Backup (download) all blobs in a Azure blob storage container

DownloadAllBlobs.cs

using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob;
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.IO;

namespace DownloadAllBlobs
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var blobConectionString = "<connectionstring>";

            CloudStorageAccount backupStorageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(blobConectionString);

            var containerName = "<my container name>";
            var backupBlobClient = backupStorageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();
            var backupContainer = backupBlobClient.GetContainerReference(containerName);

            var basedir = @"C:\backup\" + containerName;

            foreach (var blob in backupContainer.ListBlobs(useFlatBlobListing: true).OfType<CloudBlockBlob>())
            {
                var dir = Path.Combine(basedir, Path.GetDirectoryName(blob.Name));
                Directory.CreateDirectory(dir);
                blob.DownloadToFile(Path.Combine(basedir, blob.Name), FileMode.Create);
            }
        }
    }
}