AWS Snowball User Guide
Using the Snowball Client
snowball cp [source path] [destination path]
When copying a directory, if you also want to copy the contents of the source directory, you use the -r
option to recursively copy the contents.
Syntax for Copying a File
• Copying a file to a nonexistent destination with no trailing slash – Copies the source file to a new
file at the destination.
snowball cp /tmp/file1 s3://bucket-name/dir1/file2
In the preceding example, the source file file1 is copied to the Snowball with the new file name of
file2.
• Copying a file to a nonexistent destination with a trailing slash – Creates a new directory at the
destination, and copies the file into that new directory.
snowball cp /tmp/file3 s3://bucket-name/dir2/
In the preceding example, the dir2 directory does not exist until this command is executed. Because
dir2/ has a trailing slash in this example, dir2 is created as a directory, and the path to file3 on the
Snowball is s3://bucket-name/dir2/file3.
• Copying a file to an existing destination file – Fails unless you specify the -f option to overwrite the
existing destination file.
snowball cp -f /tmp/file4 s3://bucket-name/dir3/file5
In the preceding example, the destination file file5 already exists before the command was executed.
By executing this command with the -f option, file5 is overwritten by the contents of file4, with a
destination path of s3://bucket-name/dir3/file5.
• Copying a file to an existing destination directory – Copies the file into the existing destination
directory.
snowball cp /tmp/file6 s3://bucket-name/dir4/
The preceding example copies file6 into s3://bucket-name/dir4/.
Note
If file6 already exists in s3://bucket-name/dir4/ when this command is executed, the
command fails. You can force the destination file6 to be overwritten by the source file6 by
using the snowball cp command with the -f option.
• Copying a file to a bucket on Snowball with or without a trailing slash – Copies the file into the root
level directory on the Snowball that shares the name of an Amazon S3 bucket.
snowball cp /tmp/file7 s3://bucket-name
The preceding example copies file7 into s3://bucket-name/file7.
Note
If file7 already exists in s3://bucket-name when this command is executed, the command
fails. You can force the destination file7 to be overwritten by the source file7 by using the
snowball cp command with the -f option.
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