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CHAPTER 11 Transferring data to the cloud using
Amazon Snowball
This chapter describes transferring large amounts of data from your AltaVault to the cloud using Amazon Snowball. It
includes the following sections:
“Prerequisites” on page 159
“Guidelines for using Snowball with AltaVault” on page 159
“Seeding data using Snowball” on page 160
Snowball provides a cost-effective and efficient means of moving data to the cloud while taking advantage of the
deduplication, compression, and encryption capabilities of AltaVault. A single Snowball appliances can transfer
terabytes of information from AltaVault to the Amazon cloud. Seeding your cloud storage using Snowball alleviates
the challenges of moving large data sets across the Internet during the initial backup of your site.
Prerequisites
AltaVault must be configured to use the Amazon S3 cloud. For AltaVault cloud configuration details, see “To use
the Cloud Settings wizard” on page 22.
AltaVault replication must be suspended immediately after configuring AltaVault to use the S3 cloud so no data
replication to S3 occurs over the Internet. To suspend replication, see “Configuring replication” on page 36.
You must use the same AWS account to order Snowball as was used to configure S3 bucket/cloud credentials.
Snowball Edge is not supported.
Guidelines for using Snowball with AltaVault
After initially configuring Amazon S3 as the cloud storage with AltaVault, you must suspend replication on
AltaVault. No data should be allowed to replicate from AltaVault to the cloud prior to performing one or more
Snowball operations.
Snowball configuration and management on AltaVault is provided through the command-line interface (CLI)
only.
Seeding data from AltaVault to the cloud is generally a one-time operation that is done after initially configuring
a cloud service provider. It assumes no data exists in the cloud bucket.
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