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Finding a Snapshot
You will need to find a snapshot associated with a volume when you want to restore the snapshot to a new volume—for example, in a disaster recovery scenario—or to restore a previous version of your application data. To restore a snapshot, you need to know its snapshot ID. There are several ways you can find a snapshot ID including using the AWS Storage Gateway console, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) console, or programmatically using one of the AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs).
If you list snapshots using the AWS Storage Gateway console, the list includes all your snapshots generated from your gateway and snapshots that you might have generated from Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes. If you list snapshots in the Amazon EC2 console, more snapshot properties are shown to help you find your snapshot as well as a search filtering capability. Both console experiences are described below. In some scenarios, you might need to search using several snapshot properties at once—for example, status, start date, and description. In this case, you can use a programmatic approach. For examples, see Finding Snapshots Using the AWS SDK for Javal, Finding Snapshots Using the AWS SDK for .NET, or Finding Snapshots Using the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell.
When you find your snapshot, you can view its details, including date and time the snapshot was started and the storage volume on your gateway that was the source for the snapshot.
To find a snapshot for a volume using the AWS Storage Gateway console
On the AWS Storage Gateway console, in the Navigation pane, click Snapshots.
The Snapshots window shows a list of your snapshots.
Find the snapshot that you are looking for in the list by looking for the volume ID in the Volume ID column.
Click the snapshot row to display the snapshot details.
To find a snapshot for a volume using the Elastic Block Store console
On the Amazon EC2 Management console, in the Navigation pane, click Snapshots under ELASTIC BLOCK STORE.
The EBS Snapshots window shows a list of your snapshots. This snapshot view offers more functionality for finding snapshots. In particular, this view shows descriptions that can be useful for filtering results—for instance, there is a pattern to snapshot descriptions that you can use to help find a snapshot. For example, in the console image below
The row marked with 1 is a snapshot taken of an EBS volume. The name and description fields are specified in the snapshot creation. This snapshot is not from an AWS Storage Gateway operation.
The row marked as 2 is an ad-hoc snapshot taken from the AWS Storage Gateway console. The description for ad-hoc snapshots contains "AWSConsole-Snapshot".
The row marked as 3 is a snapshot of a volume taken from a snapshot schedule by AWS Storage Gateway. The descripton of scheduled snapshots gives the storage gateway ID, volume ID, and the word "Schedule" in the pattern "
gatewayID:volumeID:Schedule".
Find the snapshot that you are looking for in the list by typing some or all of the volume ID into the Search field.
In the following example, only results containing "vol-424" are shown. You can find the volume ID in the AWS Storage Gateway console in the Volumes tab.
Click the snapshot row to display the snapshot details.
