Migrating from Rackspace cloudfiles to Azure Blob storage

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Migrating from Rackspace cloudfiles to Azure Blob storage

Anonymous

We have been using rackspace CDN so far and Now we want to use Azure CDN. We need to migrate our data from Rackspace container cloudfiles to Azure Blob storage. What is correct way to migrate this data with minimum disruption. Data size is 500 GB.

Sumarigo-MSFT 47,481 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2022-05-10T17:44:32.013+00:00

@Anonymous Thanks for raising this good question. I’m checking on this internally with the product team and will get back to you with something concrete. Apologies for the delay in responding here, in the interim, please refer to the below mentioned suggestion.

About Azure Migrate: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/migrate-services-overview
Choose an Azure solution for data transfer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/storage/common/storage-choose-data-transfer-solution?toc=%2Fazure%2Fstorage%2Fblobs%2Ftoc.json

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Sumarigo-MSFT 47,481 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2022-05-10T17:44:32.013+00:00

@Anonymous Thanks for raising this good question. I’m checking on this internally with the product team and will get back to you with something concrete. Apologies for the delay in responding here, in the interim, please refer to the below mentioned suggestion.

About Azure Migrate: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/migrate-services-overview
Choose an Azure solution for data transfer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/storage/common/storage-choose-data-transfer-solution?toc=%2Fazure%2Fstorage%2Fblobs%2Ftoc.json

Answer 1

@Anonymous Thank you for your time and patience.

There are not a lot of tools that support OpenStack Swift (the foundation of RAX Cloud Files). As this is a small amount of data (500GB), I would recommend using RackSpace’s recommended tool CyberDuck. It can copy and synchronize between Cloud Files and Blob Storage.

Reference / recommendation from Rackspace - Other tools and applications for Cloud Files — Rackspace Cloud Files v1.0 v1. documentation

Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.

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Anonymous

I have already tried to copy data using cyberduck.... transferring or downloading data with cyberduck is not feasible as its taking many days. We are looking for some solution which can transfer data in hours, not more than a day.

Sharaz Gordon 0 Reputation points

2023-09-15T14:34:34.58+00:00

Although this issue may have been resolved by now (i hope), the best way i have found to do this is to use FileZilla Pro. It may take some time depending on the amount of individual files, but once it gets going, it works really well. And if there is any break in the connection or failures, you can pick up from there and not have to start all over again.
Elieser Pereira 0 Reputation points

2025-06-26T15:47:15.9166667+00:00

I'm curious to know how did you solved the migration?

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Migrating from Rackspace cloudfiles to Azure Blob storage

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