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Pallav415
Copper Contributor
Nov 13, 2023

Copy from on-prem to Azure Archive Tier

Hi All,

We have an on-prem NetApp File Share. We are thinking of  copying data from on-prem NetApp file share to Azure Archive Tier ( Blob) for long term backup.  The files in Azure Archive will not be accessed unless there is some  special need. We are ok with the 15 hour rehydration time. If we need,  we want  to be able to rehydrate the files from Archive to a hot/cold blob and access them  from NetApp. 

 

As I understand we can use CLI in batch mode to upload large number of files to Azure Archive. However how easy or difficult is it going to be to rehydrate the files into a hot/cold blob and read the same through NetApp file share. Essentially ( If I am correct) the rehydrated files will need to be mounted to NetApp.

 

if there any solution for this problem?

 

Thanks

 

Pallav

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  • Kidd_Ip's avatar
    Kidd_Ip
    MVP
    Nov 05, 2025

    You can copy from on‑prem NetApp to Azure Archive tier, but rehydration is not seamless. When you rehydrate, the blobs are restored to Hot or Cool tier, and only then can they be accessed again. NetApp cannot directly mount Archive blobs. The practical solution is to use Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management or NetApp Cloud Tiering/Azure File Sync to manage movement between tiers, and then expose the rehydrated data back to NetApp.

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