Use AzCopy to Transfer Data from One Storage Account to Another

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Use AzCopy to Transfer Data from One Storage Account to Another

In the scenario for this hands-on lab, you are a storage administrator. The Data Science department needs you to migrate the data from one of their storage accounts to a new storage account with hierarchical namespaces. They are using _Azure HD Insight_ and need the big data analytics capabilities that come with _Gen 2 Data Lake Storage_. Use the AzCopy tool within Azure Cloud Shell to perform the migration.

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Lab Info

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Sep 23, 2025

Duration

1h 0m

Challenge

Create a Storage Container
1. Login to the Azure Portal, open Cloud Shell and get to a bash prompt.
2. List the available storage accounts within the lab environment.
3. List the storage account keys for each storage account for proper permission to create the container.
4. Within the first storage account (begins with stor1), perform the command to create a container named container1.
Challenge

Use AzCopy to Transfer Data to the Container
1. Within the Azure CLI, generate the SAS token necessary to give azcopy access to the storage account.
2. Use azcopy in the command-line to copy the data from your local drive, to the storage account beginning with stor1.
Challenge

Create a Second Storage Container
1. From the Azure CLI, perform the command to create a container named container2 within the second storage account (begins with stor2).
Challenge

Copy Data between Storage Accounts using AZCOPY
- Within the Azure CLI, generate the SAS token necessary to give azcopy access to the storage account
- Use azcopy in the command-line to copy the data from the first storage account (begins with stor1) to the second storage account (begins with stor2)
- Verify that the data resides within container2

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