Testing your gateway

You test your Volume Gateway setup by performing the following tasks:

1. Write data to the volume.

2. Take a snapshot.

3. Restore the snapshot to another volume.

You verify the setup for a gateway by taking a snapshot backup of your volume and storing the snapshot in AWS. You then restore the snapshot to a new volume. Your gateway copies the data from the specified snapshot in AWS to the new volume.

Note

Restoring data from Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are encrypted is not supported.

To create an Amazon EBS snapshot of a storage volume on Microsoft Windows

1. On your Windows computer, copy some data to your mapped storage volume.

   The amount of data copied doesn't matter for this demonstration. A small file is enough to demonstrate the restore process.

2. In the navigation pane of the Storage Gateway console, choose Volumes.

3. Choose the storage volume that you created for the gateway.

   This gateway should have only one storage volume. Choose the volume displays its properties.

4. For Actions, choose Create EBS snapshot to create a snapshot of the volume.

   Depending on the amount of data on the disk and the upload bandwidth, it might take a few seconds to complete the snapshot. Note the volume ID for the volume from which you create a snapshot. You use the ID to find the snapshot.

5. In the Create EBS Snapshot dialog box, provide a description for your snapshot.

6. (Optional) For Tags, enter a key and value to add tags to the snapshot. A tag is a case-sensitive key-value pair that helps you manage, filter, and search for your snapshots.

7. Choose Create Snapshot. Your snapshot is stored as an Amazon EBS snapshot. Note your snapshot ID. The number of snapshots created for your volume is displayed in the snapshot column.

8. In the EBS snapshots column, choose the link for the volume that you created the snapshot for to see your EBS snapshot on the Amazon EC2 console.

To restore a snapshot to another volume

See Creating a storage volume.