Migrate database to azure

• abdalah.mehdoini

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  August 25, 2020 at 9:49 am

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  Good morning all ,

  I have a 600GB database that I must transfer from an on-premises machine to an on Azure VM machine (iaas)

  I would like to use the dbatools copy-database tool for this

  for this I will have to know what will be the best storage method that allows me to have a fast transfer

  1 local backup then restore on the Azure machine

  2 remote backups directly on the machine in azure

  3 a backup and a restore from stoarge azure blob

  thank you for your advice

• Grant Fritchey

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  August 25, 2020 at 11:20 am

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  I answered this over on stackexchange too. I'd use AZCopy to move the backups up to Azure Blob Storage, specifically where your VM has defined it's storage. Then, it's just a standard database restore. No tricks. Nothing weird. AZCopy is the fastest way I've seen for moving data up. If you move to multiple 10s of terrabytes, Microsoft has  service where you can ship them a drive, but you need to be a lot bigger than a few hundred gb to make that worth while.

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• HardissonHard

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  September 4, 2020 at 9:26 am

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  Oh, that is rather hard question

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• Jeff Moden

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  September 4, 2020 at 2:31 pm

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  TimWoods wrote:

  Before you publish your project to Azure App Service, you must first upload your project's database to Azure SQL Database.

  Heh... do tell... Just how would you accomplish such a thing or is this just generic typing to cover for the spam link in your signature line?

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