I wonder how this process worked in practice. Do you simply send your only one set of hard disks and hope for the best? Do you keep your original data on one set of disks, copy it to another set of disks and send it off? Do you make multiple copies of the same data and send them all together on the same truck? Multiple copies on multiple trucks? How would you do reconciliation on the other end once the disks arrive at the destination?
Like everything feels so simple and straightforward from afar but once I try to actually reason about something even the simplest of tasks feels complicated.
> I wonder how this process worked in practice. Do you simply send your only one set of hard disks and hope for the best?
No, you don't put your own disks in the Snowmobile/Snowball/Snowclone. It contains disks, so when it arrives you connect it to your network and copy data onto it, and then it is driven to an Amazon datacentre.
Thank you. That makes much more sense. So this way once the data is on the AWS device it is Amazon.com's responsibility so the customer doesn't need to worry about the truck or whatever.
Like everything feels so simple and straightforward from afar but once I try to actually reason about something even the simplest of tasks feels complicated.