View the status of Azure Import/Export jobs

This article provides information on how to view the drive and job status for Azure Import/Export jobs. Azure Import/Export service is used to securely transfer large amounts of data to Azure Blobs and Azure Files. The service is also used to export data from Azure Blob storage.

View job and drive status

You can view the status of your import and export jobs in the Azure portal. The procedures differ slightly depending on whether you created the job in the Preview portal or using the Classic experience.

Portal (Preview)

If you created your import or export job in Azure Data Box (the Preview experience), you'll track the job's status along with your other Data Box resources.

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

2. Search for azure data box.

   

3. To filter to Azure Import/Export jobs, enter "Import/Export" in the search box.

   

   A list of Import/Export jobs appears on the page.

   

4. View job details by selecting a job name.

   The selected job's Current order status and Data copy details are displayed for each drive.

   • If you have access to the storage account, you can select a Copy log path or Verbose log path to view the log.

   • Select a Drive ID to open a panel with full copy information, including the manifest file and hash.

   

Portal (Classic)

If you created your import or export job in Azure Import/Export (the Classic experience), you'll track the status of the job in the Import/Export area of the Azure portal.

1. Log on to https://portal.azure.com/.

2. Search for import/export jobs.

   

   A list of your Import/Export jobs appears on the page.

   

3. Select and click a job to view job details.

   

4. Scroll down to the list of drives to view the Drive state, Copy status, and Percent complete for each drive in the job.

   

Job status descriptions

The Azure portal shows the current job status and the progression of an import or export job through job statuses.

The job statuses vary depending on whether you created the Import/Export Job in Azure Data Box (the Preview experience) or Azure Import/Export (the Classic experience).

Portal (Preview)

If you create your job in the Preview portal, you see one of the following job statuses depending on where your drive is in the process.

Job status	Description
Awaiting shipment information	After a job is created, its state is set to Awaiting shipment information. While the job is in this state, the Import/Export service assumes the drives haven't been shipped to the datacenter. To proceed further, the customer needs to provide the shipment information for the job. A job may remain in this state for up to two weeks, after which the service automatically deletes it.
Shipped	After you ship your package, you should update the tracking information in the Azure portal. Doing so changes the job state to Shipped. The job remains in the Shipped state for up to two weeks. When a job reaches Shipped state, it can no longer be canceled.
Received	After all drives are received at the datacenter, the job state is set to Received. The job status may change 1 to 3 business days after the carrier delivers the device, when order processing completes in the datacenter.
Data copy in progress	Once processing begins for at least one drive, the job state is set to Data copy in progress. For more information, see Drive status descriptions.
Data copy completed with errors	The job moves to Data copy completed with errors state when the service has experienced errors while copying data in at least one of the drives.
Data copy completed with warnings	The job moves to Data copy completed with warnings state when the service has completed the data copy but some files, folders, or containers were renamed. See the copy log for details.
Data copy failed	Data copy failed due to issues encountered while copying data to or from at least one of the drives.
Preparing to ship	After all drives have completed processing, the job is placed in Preparing to ship state until the drives are shipped back to you.
Shipped to customer	After all drives have been shipped back to you, the job status changes to Shipped to customer.
Completed	After all drives are shipped back to you, if the job has completed without errors, then the job is set to Completed. The job is automatically deleted after 90 days in the Completed state.
Canceled	The job has been canceled.

Portal (Classic)

If you create your job using the Classic method, you see one of the following job statuses depending on where your drive is in the process.

Job status	Description
Creating	After a job is created, its state is set to Creating. While the job is in the Creating state, the Import/Export service assumes the drives haven't been shipped to the data center. A job may remain in this state for up to two weeks, after which it's automatically deleted by the service.
Shipping	After you ship your package, you should update the tracking information in the Azure portal. Doing so turns the job into Shipping state. The job remains in the Shipping state for up to two weeks. When a job reaches Shipping state, it can no longer be canceled.
Received	After all drives are received at the data center, the job state is set to Received. The job status may change 1 to 3 business days after the carrier delivers the device, when order processing completes in the datacenter.
Transferring	Once at least one drive has begun processing, the job state is set to Transferring. For more information, see Drive status descriptions.
Packaging	After all drives have completed processing, the job is placed in Packaging state until the drives are shipped back to you.
Completed	After all drives are shipped back to you, if the job has completed without errors, then the job is set to Completed. The job is automatically deleted after 90 days in the Completed state.
Closed	After all drives are shipped back to you, if there were any errors during the job processing, the job is set to Closed. The job is automatically deleted after 90 days in the Closed state.
Canceled	The job has been canceled.

Drive status descriptions

The Azure portal shows the current state of each drive during the lifecycle of an Azure Import/Export job. The following tables describe these drive states.

The drive states differ slightly for Azure Import/Export Jobs created in Azure Data Box (the Preview experience) and jobs created in Azure Import/Export (the Classic experience).

Portal (Preview)

The following tables describe the drive states for import and export jobs created in Azure Data Box (the Preview experience).

The table below describes the life cycle of an individual drive when the data copy completes successfully.

Drive status	Description
Data copy not started	Data copy has not yet started on the drive.
%age completed	Data copy is in progress for the drive, and this percentage of the data copy is complete.
Data copy completed	The service successfully transferred all the data from or to the drive with no errors.
Data copy completed with errors	The service came across errors while copying data from or to the drive.
Data copy completed with warnings	The service completed copying data from or to the drive, but some warnings were raised in the process.

The following table describes the drive statuses that result from a failed data copy for a drive.

Drive status	Description
Disk not received at datacenter	The disk wasn't received at the datacenter. The drive may not have been included in the package.
Failed	Issues faced while processing the job. Contact Microsoft Support for more info.
Manifest file error	Issues in the manifest file or its format.
Export blob list format invalid	For an export job, the blob list doesn't conform to the required format. An XML file with valid blob paths and prefixes is required. See Valid blob path prefixes for more information.
Blob access forbidden	For an export job, access to the export blob list in the storage account was denied. This might be caused by an invalid storage account key or container SAS.
Unsupported disk	Disk type not supported by the Azure Import/Export service. See Supported disk types for more information.
Disk corrupted	Data on the disk is corrupted.
BitLocker unlock volume failed	Attempt to unlock the BitLocker volume failed.
BitLocker volume not found	Disk doesn't contain a BitLocker-enabled volume.
BitLocker key invalid	The customer-provided BitLocker key is not valid.
Hardware error	Disk has reported a media failure.
NTFS volume not found	The first data volume on the disk is not in NTFS format.
Storage account not accessible	Customer's storage account can't be accessed, and the data copy can't proceed.
Unsupported data	The data copied to the disk doesn't conform to Azure conventions, or the data can't be exported because it doesn't conform to the requirements for an NTFS volume.

Portal (Classic)

The following tables describe the drive states for import and export jobs created in Azure Import/Export (the Classic experience).

The following table describes each state that each drive in a job may pass through.

Drive state	Description
Specified	For an import job, when the job is created from the Azure portal, the initial state for a drive is Specified. For an export job, since no drive is specified when the job is created, the initial drive state is Received.
Received	For an import job, the drive transitions to the Received state when the Import/Export service has processed the drives that were received from the shipping company. For an export job, the initial drive state is the Received state.
NeverReceived	The drive moves to the NeverReceived state when the package for a job arrives but the package doesn't contain the drive. A drive also moves into this state if the datacenter hasn't yet received the package, and the service received the shipping information at least two weeks ago.
Transferring	A drive moves to the Transferring state when the service begins to transfer data from the drive to Azure Storage.
Completed	A drive moves to the Completed state when the service has successfully transferred all the data with no errors.
CompletedMoreInfo	A drive moves to the CompletedMoreInfo state when the service has experienced issues while copying data from or to the drive. The information can include errors, warnings, or informational messages about overwriting blobs.
ShippedBack	A drive moves to the ShippedBack state when it has been shipped from the datacenter back to the return address.

The following table describes drive failure states and the actions taken for each state.

Drive state	Event	Resolution / Next step
Never received	A drive that's marked as NeverReceived (because it wasn't received as part of the job's shipment) arrives in another shipment.	The operations team moves the drive to Received.
N/A	A drive that isn't part of any job arrives at the datacenter as part of another job.	The drive is marked as an extra drive. It's returned to you when the job associated with the original package is completed.

Time to process job

The amount of time it takes to process an import/export job varies based on a number of factors such as:

• Shipping time
• Load at the datacenter
• Job type and size of the data being copied
• Number of disks in a job.

Import/Export service doesn't have an SLA, but the service strives to complete the copy in 7 to 10 days after the disks are received. In addition to the status posted on Azure portal, you can use REST APIs to track the job progress. Use the percent complete parameter in the List Jobs operation API call to view the percentage copy progress.

Next steps

• Transfer data with AzCopy command-line utility
• Azure Import Export REST API sample