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Nabeel Sulieman

Migrating Data Between Azure Subscriptions

2016-11-29

It’s been two years since I left Microsoft, and they finally decided to cancel my free employee Azure account. It was fun while it lasted, but now I have to move my data to a regular paid account. I looked through the FAQs and contacted support for the easiest way to do this, and unfortunately there is no officially recommended solution for moving storage accounts between different subscriptions.

I found some Windows-only tools that may have done the job, but I wanted a solution that would run on any platform. So I decided to write and share some quick NodeJS scripts: https://github.com/nabsul/migrate-azure-storage

To use:

  • Get the code and install the dependencies
  • Edit the configuration file with the source and destination storage accounts
  • Run “npm run copy" to copy all blob and table data
  • Run “npm run compare" to compare the data between the accounts

Notes:

  • For better performance, run this on a Digital Ocean droplet instead your home machine
  • Preexisting blobs and tables are silently overwritten, so be careful!