Preparing the device with the Snowball Edge CLI

When a Snow Family device first boots up, it is always locked. You will need the unlock key and manifest file from the preceding section to unlock the device for use.

Step 1 – Installing the AWS Snow CLI client

Download and install the AWS Snow CLI client. This is similar to the general-purpose AWS CLI utility but includes commands specific to Snow Family devices:

wget https://snowball-client.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/snowball-client-linux.tar.gz
tar -xvf ./snowball-client-linux.tar.gz

Note – Setting the build number

In the following command, make sure you replace buildnum with the build number of the client you downloaded. This can be seen by executing the ls command.

Now, add the AWS Snow CLI bin directory path to your PATH variable:

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/snowball-client-linux-buildnum/bin/

Figure 12.21 – Adding the AWS Snow CLI bin directory to your PATH variable

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