Importing data to Azure Storage Blob with metadata

Question

Hello all,

I am looking to transfer about 10TB of data from a physical server to a Azure Storage Blob. I am using Storage Manager to move the data from the server to the Blob.

When I transfer the data the metadata is being change as if it is a copy; the data regarding the creation data, user modification date, etc.

Is there another tool or solution to transfer the data with the original metadata?

Answer 1

Here you can find the different options for data transfer:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-choose-data-transfer-solution?toc=/azure/storage/blobs/toc.json

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Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

@KareemWilliams-9581Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thanks for posting the query. Adding more information to the above suggestion,
You can set metadata on the blob before calling to upload.

Set Blob Metadata

You can see the available response ( metadata) that is available for the blob: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/get-blob-properties#sample-response

You can leverage the Getblob metedata and set blob metadata REST API to understand which metadata are default and which can be tweaked: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/get-blob-metadata
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/set-blob-metadata

Setting and retrieving properties and metadata for Blob service resources

Hope this helps!

Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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