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| ![Step 1](media/storage-sync-files-offline-data-transfer/bullet_1.png) | [Order your Data Box](../../databox/data-box-deploy-ordered.md). The Data Box family offers [several products](https://azure.microsoft.com/services/storage/databox/data) to meet your needs. When you receive your Data Box, follow its [documentation to copy your data](../../databox/data-box-deploy-copy-data.md#copy-data-to-data-box) to this UNC path on the Data Box: *\\<DeviceIPAddres\>\<StorageAccountName_AzFile\>\<ShareName\>*. Here, *ShareName* is the name of the staging share. Send the Data Box back to Azure. |
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| ![Step 2](media/storage-sync-files-offline-data-transfer/bullet_2.png) | Wait until your files show up in the Azure file shares that you chose as temporary staging shares. *Do not enable syncing to these shares.* |
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| ![Step 3](media/storage-sync-files-offline-data-transfer/bullet_3.png) | <ul><li>Create a new empty share for each file share that Data Box created for you. This new share should be in the same storage account as the Data Box share. [How to create a new Azure file share](storage-how-to-create-file-share.md).</li><li>[Create a sync group](storage-sync-files-deployment-guide.md#create-a-sync-group-and-a-cloud-endpoint) in a Storage Sync Service. Reference the empty share as a cloud endpoint. Repeat this step for every Data Box file share. [Set up Azure File Sync](storage-sync-files-deployment-guide.md).</li></ul> |
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| ![Step 4](media/storage-sync-files-offline-data-transfer/bullet_4.png) | [Add your live server directory as a server endpoint](storage-sync-files-deployment-guide.md#create-a-server-endpoint). In the process, specify that you moved the files to Azure, and reference the staging shares. You can enable or disable cloud tiering as needed. While creating a server endpoint on your live server, reference the staging share. On the **Add server endpoint** blade, under **Offline Data Transfer**, select **Enabled**, and then select the staging share that must be in the same storage account as the cloud endpoint. Here, the list of available shares is filtered by storage account and shares that aren't already syncing. Also reference the screenshot that follows this table. |
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| ![Step 5](media/storage-sync-files-offline-data-transfer/bullet_5.png) | One you have added the server endpoint in the previous step, data starts automatically flowing from the right source. The section [Syncing the share](#syncing-the-share) in this article explains under which circumstances data flows from the DataBox share or from the Windows server. |
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| ![Step 4](media/storage-sync-files-offline-data-transfer/bullet_4.png) | [Add your live server directory as a server endpoint](storage-sync-files-deployment-guide.md#create-a-server-endpoint). In the process, specify that you moved the files to Azure, and reference the staging shares. You can enable or disable cloud tiering as needed. While creating a server endpoint on your live server, reference the staging share. On the **Add server endpoint** blade, under **Offline Data Transfer**, select **Enabled**, and then select the staging share that must be in the same storage account as the cloud endpoint. Here, the list of available shares is filtered by storage account and shares that aren't already syncing. The screenshot following this table shows how to reference the DataBox share during server endpoint creation in the Azure portal. |
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| ![Step 5](media/storage-sync-files-offline-data-transfer/bullet_5.png) | Once you have added the server endpoint in the previous step, data starts automatically flowing from the right source. The [Syncing the share](#syncing-the-share) section explains when data flows either from the DataBox share or from the Windows Server |
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![Screenshot of the Azure portal user interface, showing how to enable offline data transfer while creating a new server endpoint](media/storage-sync-files-offline-data-transfer/data-box-integration-2-600.png)
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## Syncing the share
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After you create your server endpoint, sync will start. The sync process determines whether each file on the server also exists in the staging share where Data Box deposited the files. If the file exists there, the sync process copies the file from the staging share rather than uploading it from the server. If the file doesn't exist in the staging share, or if a newer version is available on the local server, the sync process uploads the file from the local server.
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Sync will always transport missing file attributes, permissions and timestamps from the local server and add that to files coming from the DataBox share. That's done to ensure each file and folder arrives with all possible fidelity in the final, syncing Azure file share.
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> [!IMPORTANT]
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> You can enable the bulk migration mode only while you're creating a server endpoint. After you establish a server endpoint, you can't integrate bulk-migrated data from an already syncing server into the namespace.
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