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AWS Snowball User Guide

Using the Snowball Client

During data transfer, at least one folder appears at the root level of the Snowball. This folder and any

others at this level have the same names as the Amazon S3 buckets that you chose when this job was

created. You can't write data to the root level of the Snowball. All data must be written into one of the

bucket folders or into their subfolders.

You can work with ﬁles or folders with spaces in their names, like my photo.jpg or My Documents.

However, make sure that you handle the spaces properly in the client commands. For more information,

see the following examples:

• Linux and Mac version of the client – snowball ls s3://mybucket/My\ Folder/my\

photo.jpg

• Windows version of the client – snowball ls "s3://mybucket/My Documents/my

photo.jpg"

Note

Before transferring data into Amazon S3 using Snowball, you should make sure that the ﬁles

and folders that you're going to transfer are named according to the Object Key Naming

Guidelines for Amazon S3.

If you're having trouble using the Snowball client, see Troubleshooting for a Standard

Snowball (p. 98).

Copy Command for the Snowball Client

The snowball cp command copies ﬁles and folders between the Snowball and your data source. For

details on options for the Snowball copy command (snowball cp), see Options for the snowball cp

Command (p. 60). In addition to supporting command options, transferring data with the Snowball

client supports schemas to deﬁne what type of data is being transferred. For more information on

schemas, see Schemas for Snowball Client (p. 54).

Usage

snowball cp [OPTION...] SRC... s3://DEST

Import examples

snowball cp --recursive /Logs/April s3://MyBucket/Logs

snowball cp -r /Logs/April s3://MyBucket/Logs

Export examples

snowball cp --recursive s3://MyBucket/Logs/ /Logs/April

snowball cp -r s3://MyBucket/Logs/ /Logs/April

For details on options for the Snowball copy command (snowball cp), see Options for the snowball cp

Command (p. 60).

List Command for the Snowball Client

The snowball ls command lists the Snowball contents in the speciﬁed path. You can't use this

command to list the contents on your workstation, your data source, or other network locations outside

of the Snowball.