Transferring Data to Amazon Web Service S3 using Amazon Snowball

Enterprise Administration > File Vaulting and Replication > File Vaulting > Working with External File Vaults > Configuring Windchill File Vaults to Use Amazon S3 > Transferring Data to Amazon Web Service S3 using Amazon Snowball

This section explains the steps to transfer the data into Amazon Web Service (AWS) S3. AWS Snowball is a service that accelerates transferring large amounts of data to and out of AWS using physical storage appliances.

Perform the following steps to transfer data in to AWS S3:

1. Order Amazon Snowball to your premises.

2. Once Amazon Snowball is available, connect the power cable and network cable to Amazon Snowball. Snowball's E Ink display an IP address similar to the following:

3. Download the Snowball client from https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/tools/

4. Install Snowball client.

5. Download your manifest from the Snowball management console, at https://console.aws.amazon.com/importexport.

6. Get the unlock code from the Snowball management console, at https://console.aws.amazon.com/importexport.

7. Start the command prompt and run following command to start Amazon Snowball:

snowball.bat start -i <ip address> -u <unlock code> -m <manifest file path>

The Snowball client should display the following information:

8. To list the available buckets in snowball, run this command snowball.bat ls

After running the command, the snowball client displays the following information:

9. To perform a test of copy directory to Amazon Snowball, run this command:

snowball.bat test -r <vault mount path on host machine>

After running the command, the Snowball client displays sample files as follows:

You can test the Snowball client without having a manifest, an unlock code, or a Snowball.

10. To copy data from vault location to Amazon Snowball, run this command

snowball.bat cp -r <path to vault>
s3://<bucketname>/<vaultname>

Example

snowball.bat mkdir s3://Testbucket/defaultuploadvault
snowball.bat cp -r C:\PTC\Windchill\vaults\defaultuploadvault
s3://Testbucket/defaultuploadvault

In this example, defaultuploadvaultcontains the sub-folders and content files are inside sub-folders.

After running the command, the Snowball client displays the following information:

11. To validate data on Amazon Snowball, run this commandsnowball.bat validate <path on Amazon Snowball>

Example

snowball.bat validate s3://Testbucket/defaultuploadvault

After running the command, the Snowball client displays the following information:

12. To stop Amazon Snowball, run the following command: snowball.bat stop

If your vault does not contain RootFolder but only Folders, then run the following utility: windchill wt.fv.tools.FolderToRootFolderConverter

For more details on Snowball Client, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/snowball-transfer-client.html

For details on encryption and security, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/security.html#

For details on encryption in snowball, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/security.html

If you want to store the content on AWS S3 in SSE-S3 encryption format, configure the bucket level policy for SSE-S3, so that the snowball import job will store the content in SSE-S3 format.

windchill wt.objectstorage.tools.MountMigrationTool migrate -u
<username> -p <password> -r <RootFolder name> -m <mount path on
Amazon S3> -t amazonS3