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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
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  4. About NetBackup support for AWS Snowball Edge
  5. Using Credentials
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Using Credentials

Use local user credentials with the device rather than your normal S3 IAM credentials. You can get the root credentials from the AWS Snowball Edge client.

Retrieve the access key first:

<client install location>/snowballEdge list-access-keys 
--manifest-file <manifest file location> 
--unlock-code <code> 
--endpoint https://<ip-address-of-snowball-edge-device>

Retrieve the secret key next:

<client install location>/snowballEdge get-secret-access-key 
--manifest-file <manifest file location> --unlock-code <code> 
--endpoint https://<ip-address-of-snowball-edge-device> 
--access-key-id <access key from previous command output>

Note:

It's best practice to configure non-root users. Refer to the following instructions for creating local users:

Setting Up Local Users AWS Snowball

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