Using Export Ranges
When you create an export job in the AWS Snowball Management Console, you can choose to export an entire Amazon S3 bucket or a specific range of objects keys. Object key names uniquely identify objects in a bucket. If you choose to export a range, you define the length of the range by providing either an inclusive range beginning, an inclusive range ending, or both.
Ranges are UTF-8 binary sorted. UTF-8 binary data is sorted in the following way:
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The numbers 0-9 come before both uppercase and lowercase English characters.
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Uppercase English characters come before all lowercase English characters.
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Lowercase English characters come last when sorted against uppercase English characters and numbers.
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Special characters are sorted among the other character sets.
For more information on the specifics of UTF-8 sort order, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8.
Export Range Examples
Assume you have a bucket containing the following objects, sorted in UTF-8 binary order.
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01
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Aardvark
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Aardwolf
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Aasvogel/apple
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Aasvogel/banana
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Aasvogel/cherry
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Banana
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Car
| Specified Range Beginning | Specified Range Ending | Objects in the Range That Will Be Exported |
|---|---|---|
| (none) | (none) | All of the objects in your bucket |
| (none) | Aasvogel |
01 Aardvark Aardwolf Aasvogel/apple Aasvogel/banana Aasvogel/cherry |
| (none) | Aasvogel/banana |
01 Aardvark Aardwolf Aasvogel/apple Aasvogel/banana |
| Aasvogel | (none) |
Aasvogel/apple Aasvogel/banana Aasvogel/cherry Banana Car |
| Aardwolf | (none) |
Aardwolf Aasvogel/apple Aasvogel/banana Aasvogel/cherry Banana Car |
| Aar | (none) |
Aardvark Aardwolf Aasvogel/apple Aasvogel/banana Aasvogel/cherry Banana Car |
| car | (none) |
No objects will be exported, and you’ll get an error message when you try to create the job. Note that car is sorted below Car according to UTF-8 binary values. |
| Aar | Aarrr |
Aardvark Aardwolf |
