• To import/export large amount of data to and from Azure using physically shipping drives etc
  • Recommendation to use Azure Data Box to import to Azure
• WAImportExport tool prepares drive to write data to
  • formats, checks for errors, encrypts disk
  • creates journal file
  • V1 - for blob
  • V2 - for [[202406291221 Azure Files|Azure Files]]

references:

MS Learn https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/import-export/storage-import-export-service Import data to Azure Files

Modify the dataset.csv file in the root folder where the tool is. Depending on whether you want to import a file or folder or both, add entries in the dataset.csv file Modify the driveset.csv file in the root folder where the tool is. Add entries in the driveset.csv file similar to the following examples. The driveset file has the list of disks and corresponding drive letters so that the tool can correctly pick the list of disks to be prepared.