AWS Snowball - Page 28

AWS Snowball User Guide
Transfer Data
• Get Your Credentials (p. 22)
• Install the AWS Snowball Client (p. 22)
• Use the AWS Snowball Client (p. 22)
• Stop the AWS Snowball Client, and Power Off the Snowball (p. 23)
• Disconnect the Appliance (p. 23)
Get Your Credentials
Each AWS Snowball job has a set of credentials that you must get from the AWS Snowball Management
Console or the job management API to authenticate your access to the Snowball. These credentials are
an encrypted manifest file and an unlock code. The manifest file contains important information about
the job and permissions associated with it. Without it, you won't be able to transfer data. The unlock
code is used to decrypt the manifest. Without it, you won't be able to communicate with the Snowball.
Note
You can only get your credentials after the Snowball appliance has been delivered to you. After
the appliance has been returned to AWS, the credentials for your job are no longer available.
To get your credentials by using the console
1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Snowball Management Console at AWS
Snowball Management Console.
2. In the AWS Snowball Management Console, search the table for the specific job to download the job
manifest for, and then choose that job.
3. Expand that job's Job status pane, and select View job details
4. In the details pane that appears, expand Credentials. Make a note of the unlock code (including
the hyphens), because you'll need to provide all 29 characters to transfer data. Choose Download
manifest in the dialog box and follow the instructions to download the job manifest file to your
computer. The name of your manifest file includes your Job ID.
Note
As a best practice, we recommend that you don't save a copy of the unlock code in the same
location in the workstation as the manifest for that job. For more information, see Best
Practices for AWS Snowball (p. 33).
Now that you have your credentials, you're ready to transfer data.
Install the AWS Snowball Client
The Snowball client is one of the tools that you can use transfer from your on-premises data source to
the Snowball. You can download the Snowball client for your operating system from AWS Snowball
Tools Download page.
Use the AWS Snowball Client
In this step, you'll run the Snowball client from the workstation first to authenticate your access to the
Snowball for this job, and then to transfer data.
To authenticate your access to the Snowball, open a terminal or command prompt window on your
workstation and type the following command:
snowball start -i [Snowball IP Address] -m [Path/to/manifest/file] -u [29
character unlock code]
Following is an example of the command to configure the Snowball client.
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