How-to migrate catalog storage account to another storage account

Marco37
Contributor III

Hi,

we  have a Azure Databricks Workspace that uses Unity Catalog  for storing data. We use a seperate storage account to store the catalogs. We need to enable the option "Infrastructure encryption" on this storage account and this is unfortunatly only possible during creation of a storage account.

Our plan is:

  1. create a new storage account
  2. stop all compute clusters and disable jobs (it is a very small environment)
  3. copy the data to that new storage account with Azure storage Explorer (copy blob container)
  4. Re-create the current storage account with the same name
  5. copy the data back to this storage account with Azure storage Explorer (copy blob container)
  6. enable jobs

I did noticed that the file date of the files on the storage account do change to the current date after the copy activity. Is this a problem for databricks, or is this file date not used because the lineage is stored in databricks tables?

I'm a infra person and not a data engineer.

Regards Marco