Hi @NaveenD,
A long ago I had to move around 2TB of data to azure storage for one of my client but the client had only small files like ppt, dwg, word, pdf etc., When I started to upload the files I get the estimation time as morethan1 week. I saw the file size is effecting the upload performance. This very much annoyed me So, I started to do a research and I learned something as below:
Cause:
Remember when you copy files anywhere onsite or offsite network, if the files in smaller chunks it will definitely take longer time depends to the file size no matter how much upload/download speed you have.
At the same time when you copy large size files like 10 GB or 20 GB (.iso, zip, rar) you will get the maximum of available upload/download speed by your network.
Solutions:
Since you have not mentioned how much of data you are moving to azure so for example I assume 2TB as in my case.
- I assume you are using windows server So, use windows server backup services to backup the partition.
- Move the files using Azure Storage Explorer or AzCopy (I prefer Azure Storage Explorer as it has GUI option)
- Attach the disk in any azure VM and recover the files from backup
This way I was able uploaded 2TB of my files within 2days with an average upload speed of 80mbps in 100mpbs.
Note: If you have multiple partitions create separate backup file for each partition by partition level.
I hope this will be useful.
Thanks
