data-box-deploy-export-picked-up.md

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Tutorial: Return Azure Data Box

This tutorial describes how to return Azure Data Box and the data is erased once the device is received at the Azure data.

In this tutorial, you will learn about topics such as:

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• Prerequisites
• Prepare to ship
• Ship Data Box to Microsoft
• Erasure of data from Data Box

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure:

• You've have completed the Tutorial: Copy data from Azure Data Box.
• Copy jobs are complete. Prepare to ship can't run if copy jobs are in progress.

Prepare to ship

[!INCLUDE data-box-export-prepare-to-ship]

The next steps are determined by where you are returning the device.

Ship Data Box back

Ensure that the data copy from the device is complete and Prepare to ship run is successful.

Based on the region where you're shipping the device, the procedure is different. In many countries/regions, you can use Microsoft managed shipping or self-managed shipping.

Microsoft managed shipping

Follow the guidelines for the region you're shipping from if you're using Microsoft managed shipping.

US & Canada

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-in-us-canada]

EU

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-in-eu]

If you're shipping back to Azure datacenters in Germany or Switzerland, you can also use self-managed shipping.

UK

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-in-uk]

Australia

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-in-australia]

Japan

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-in-japan]

Singapore

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-in-singapore]

Hong Kong

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-in-hk]

Korea

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-in-korea]

S Africa

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-in-sa]

UAE

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-in-uae]

Norway

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-in-norway]

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Self-managed shipping

[!INCLUDE data-box-shipping-self-managed]

Erasure of data from Data Box

Once the device reaches Azure datacenter, the Data Box erases the data on its disks as per the NIST SP 800-88 Revision 1 guidelines.

Next steps

In this tutorial, you learned about topics such as:

[!div class="checklist"]

• Prerequisites
• Prepare to ship
• Ship Data Box to Microsoft
• Erasure of data from Data Box

Advance to the next article to learn how to manage your Data Box.

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Manage Data Box via Azure portal