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VHD to Archive Storage
I have a disk with some files (About 1 TB) that will probably never be needed. However they might be needed so I have to keep them somewhere. I thought that the archive storage tier would be the perf...
Did you ever figure out a solution for this? (you are right, not the only one thinking about something like this)
David
Not really a good one. I thought the best thing to do was to copy the files to a container in a storage account in Azure and then change the container to the archive tier. It is not as simple a process as I wanted. There are more steps and more chances for error.
I have been on vacation so I haven't moved our archive yet. We are still using our normal backup process.