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Tutorial to copy data via SMB from your Azure Data Box | Microsoft Docs |
Learn how to copy data to your Azure Data Box via SMB |
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alkohli |
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04/04/2022 |
alkohli |
This tutorial describes how to connect to and copy data from your Data Box to an on-premises server using the local web UI. The Data Box device contains the data exported from your Azure Storage account.
In this tutorial, you learn how to:
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- Prerequisites
- Connect to Data Box
- Copy data from Data Box
Before you begin, make sure that:
- You have placed the order for Azure Data Box.
- For an import order, see Tutorial: Order Azure Data Box.
- For an export order, see Tutorial: Order Azure Data Box.
- You've received your Data Box and the order status in the portal is Delivered.
- You have a host computer to which you want to copy the data from your Data Box. Your host computer must
- Run a Supported operating system.
- Be connected to a high-speed network. We strongly recommend that you have at least one 10-GbE connection. If a 10-GbE connection isn't available, use a 1-GbE data link but the copy speeds will be impacted.
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If using a Windows Server host computer, follow these steps to connect to the Data Box.
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The first step is to authenticate and start a session. Go to Connect and copy. Select Get credentials to get the access credentials for the shares associated with your storage account.
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In the Access share and copy data dialog box, copy the Username and the Password corresponding to the share. Select OK.
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To access the shares associated with your storage account (exportbvtdataset2 in the following example) from your host computer, open a command window. At the command prompt, type:
net use \\<IP address of the device>\<share name> /u:<IP address of the device>\<user name for the share>Depending upon your data format, the share paths are as follows:
- Azure Block blob -
\\169.254.143.85\exportbvtdataset2_BlockBlob - Azure Page blob -
\\169.254.143.85\exportbvtdataset2_PageBlob - Azure Files -
\\169.254.143.85\exportbvtdataset2_AzFile
- Azure Block blob -
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Enter the password for the share when prompted. The following sample shows connecting to a share via the preceding command.
C:\Users\Databoxuser>net use \\169.254.143.85\exportbvtdataset2_BlockBlob /u:169.254.143.85\exportbvtdataset2 Enter the password for 'exportbvtdataset2' to connect to '169.254.143.85': The command completed successfully. -
Press Windows + R. In the Run window, specify the
\\<device IP address>. Select OK to open File Explorer.
You should now see the shares as folders.
If using a Linux client, use the following command to mount the SMB share. The "vers" parameter below is the version of SMB that your Linux host supports. Plug in the appropriate version in the command below. For versions of SMB that the Data Box supports see Supported file systems for Linux clients
sudo mount -t nfs -o vers=2.1 169.254.143.85:/exportbvtdataset2_BlockBlob /home/databoxubuntuhost/databoxOnce you're connected to the Data Box shares, the next step is to copy data.
[!INCLUDE data-box-export-review-logs]
After you connected to the SMB share, begin data copy. You can use any SMB compatible file copy tool such as Robocopy to copy your data. Multiple copy jobs can be initiated using Robocopy.
For more information on Robocopy command, go to Robocopy and a few examples.
Once the copy is complete, go to the Dashboard and verify the used space and the free space on your device.
You can now proceed to ship your Data Box to Microsoft.
In this tutorial, you learned about Azure Data Box topics such as:
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- Prerequisites
- Connect to Data Box
- Copy data from Data Box
Advance to the next tutorial to learn how to ship your Data Box back to Microsoft.
[!div class="nextstepaction"] Ship your Azure Data Box to Microsoft