Shipping the device
Once the data is written to the device and you're ready to ship the device back to Amazon, do the following before disconnecting the device from your network:
Deactivate the backup policy or suspend the secondary operation processing in the SLP till the device is in transit. Run the following command to suspend the secondary operation:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbstlutil inactive -lifecycle <slp_name>
Down the AWS Snowball Edge volume:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbdevconfig -changestate -stype PureDisk -dp disk_pool_name -dv <disk_volume_name> -state DOWN
Ship the device to the cloud vendor. Refer to the AWS documentation for detailed steps.
Once the device is at AWS, it takes a couple of days to import data into the S3 bucket. The import time depends on the size of the data residing on the device. You can view the progress of your import job from . Once the import job is completed, review the success log and the failure log to verify that the required data is successfully imported into the S3 bucket.
After backups are imported into the S3 bucket, perform the steps in Reconfigure NetBackup to work with S3 section before doing any NetBackup operation.