Storage account in another region - can we move?

Question

We have located all Azure resources to Australia East, however the Storage account is still displaying as Southeast Asia. I have tried to follow the steps in

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-account-move?tabs=azure-portal

I have created a new storage account in the desired region, however I can't follow the process of moving data to the new storage account.

Can anyone assist with the correct commands to move everything to the new Storage account using AzCopy?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello Gary

I believe u are looking for this>

Power shell:

azcopy copy "https://<source-storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container-name>/" "https://<destination-storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container-name>/" --recursive --source-sas "<source-sas-token>" --destination-sas "<destination-sas-token>" --source-location "SoutheastAsia" --destination-location "AustraliaEast"

where>

<source-storage-account>: The name of the source storage account.

<container-name>: The name of the container you want to copy.

<destination-storage-account>: The name of the destination storage account.

<source-sas-token>: The Shared Access Signature (SAS) token for the source container.

<destination-sas-token>: The Shared Access Signature (SAS) token for the destination container.

SoutheastAsia: The source location from where you want to copy the data.

AustraliaEast: The destination location where you want to copy the data.

and don't forget to generate SAS tokens for both location , the permission of azcopy to access the containers and storage account.

I rrly hope this is help u.

Good luck!

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Regards