How Can I Migrate Data Between SFS and OBS?

Background Information

OBS is a stable, secure, efficient, and easy-to-use cloud storage service provided by Huawei Cloud. It supports standard REST APIs and can store unstructured data of any amount and format.

SFS is a high-performance file storage (NAS) provided by Huawei Cloud. It can provide storage sharing among multiple ECSs, CCEs, CCIs, and BMSs on the cloud.

How to Migrate?

SFS file systems are mounted ECSs, containers, or BMSs. Data migration between SFS and OBS is actually the data migration between servers/containers and OBS. Data in servers or containers is stored in the mounted SFS file systems.

Therefore, after an SFS file system is mounted to a server or container, you can log in to the server or container and use OBS tools, APIs, or SDKs to migrate data. If you want to migrate data from SFS to OBS, you use the OBS upload function on the server or container to upload data to OBS. If you want to migrate data from OBS to SFS, you can use the OBS download function on the server or container to download data to the SFS file system mounted on the server or container.

OBS provides various methods for data migration, as listed in Table 1. Select a proper migration method based on your operating system and business needs, and migrate data by referring to the upload and download sections in the guide manual.

The supported operating systems, data volume, and operation complexity vary according to the migration mode. obsutil is recommended.

To reduce costs, it is recommended that you configure the intranet DNS and migrate data over the intranet of Huawei Cloud. For details, see Accessing OBS over an Intranet.