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VHD to Archive Storage
I'm spit balling here, but have you considered using AZcopy? You can use it transfer data to/from different storage types.
You can set up another Azure storage account and copy the data from your page blob to a drive you can store cold.
I had read somewhere that with azcopy if it came from a page blob the new copy would still be a page blob and that there wasn't a switch in azcopy to change from page to block blob or vice versa.
However, I didn't verify that so I may have to test it
It may be possible to perform the following using AZcopy v10:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azcopy-v10
...you can sync a Blob container down to a local file system:
AzCopy# If you're using Azure Active Directory authentication the sastoken is not required .\azcopy sync "https://account.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer1" "C:\local\path" --recursive=true
Darrick
Good suggestion but that didn't work.
The Azcopy documentation says "AzCopy v10 by default uploads data into block blobs. However, if a source file has vhd extension, AzCopy v10 will by default upload it to a page blob."
The documentation doesn't seem to be correct. I removed the vhd extension and used Azcopy but it kept it as a page blob.
Did you ever figure out a solution for this? (you are right, not the only one thinking about something like this)
David
