How to Setup a Azure Storage Account For Data Archive?

In this article, we will see how we should configure/setup and create an Azure storage account for data archive. This scenario should be implemented only for the infrequently accessed data and for data backups. To implement this scenario you should have an active Azure subscription and an azure server. You should also require blob contributor access or owner access for accessing shares or for connections in a network or client.

Implementation:

Follow the below steps to set up an Azure Storage account for data achieve:

Step 1: Login to your Azure Portal

Step 2: Create a resource group by selecting the nearest location or else you use a one if it exists.

Step 3: Next step is to create a storage account within the select resource group

• Fill up the Basic Instance Details:

Step 4: Configure Advanced Section as mentioned below in the image

• Leave Data Lake Storage Gen2 and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) as default.

• Change Access Tier to Cool.

• Leave Azure Files as default and proceed to Networking tab.

Step 5: Configure Networking for your Storage Account.

• Network connectivity Method – You can connect to your storage account either publicly, via public IP addresses or service endpoints, or privately, using a private endpoint.

• For Network Routing, Select Microsoft network routing and proceed to Data Protection tab.

Step 6: Data Protection – Protect your data from accidental or erroneous deletion or modification.

• For Tracking: If required, you can enable the versioning for blobs and  blog change feed to keep track of changes made to your blob data. else this section as default.

Step 7: Encryption – leave this section as default.

Step 8: For Tags, add your required Tag Name and Tag Values if applicable >> proceed for Storage Account creation by clicking on Review + create.

That’s it! Configuration is done for archiving data to a storage account.