AWS Snowball - Using the Snowball Console; Cloning an Import Job; Using Export Ranges

AWS Snowball User Guide
Cloning an Import Job
Using the AWS Snowball
Management Console
All jobs for AWS Snowball are created and managed from either the AWS Snowball Management Console
or the job management API for AWS Snowball. The following provides an overview of how to use the
AWS Snowball Management Console.
Topics
• Cloning an Import Job in the Console (p. 40)
• Using Export Ranges (p. 40)
• Getting Your Job Completion Report and Logs in the Console (p. 42)
• Canceling Jobs in the Console (p. 43)
Note
For information on creating your first job in the console, see Create an Import Job (p. 17) or
Create an Export Job (p. 25) in the Getting Started chapter.
Cloning an Import Job in the Console
When you first create an import job, you might discover that you need more than one Snowball. Because
each Snowball is associated with a single import job, requiring more than one Snowball means that you
need to create more than one job. When creating additional jobs, you can go through the job creation
wizard again, or you can clone an existing job.
Cloning a job means recreating it exactly, except for an automatically modified name. Cloning is a simple
process.
To clone a job
1. In the AWS Snowball Management Console, choose your job from the table.
2. For Actions, choose Clone job.
3. The Create job wizard opens to the last page, Step 6: Review.
4. Review the information and make any changes you want by choosing the appropriate Edit button.
5. To create your cloned job, choose Create job.
Cloned jobs are named in the format Job Name-clone-number. The number is automatically appended
to the job name and represents the number of times you've cloned this job after the first time you clone
it. For example, AprilFinanceReports-clone represents the first cloned job of AprilFinanceReports job,
and DataCenterMigration-clone-42 represents the forty-second clone of the DataCenterMigration job.
Using Export Ranges
When you create an export job in the AWS Snowball Management Console, you can choose to export an
entire Amazon S3 bucket or a specific range of objects keys. Object key names uniquely identify objects
in a bucket. If you choose to export a range, you define the length of the range by providing either an
inclusive range beginning, an inclusive range ending, or both.
Ranges are UTF-8 binary sorted. UTF-8 binary data is sorted in the following way:
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