Monitoring progress when restoring a backup

To monitor progress when restoring a backup (console)

Open the Amazon FSx console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/fsx/.

1. In the left navigation menu, choose Volumes.

2. Choose the volume that the backup is being restored to.

3. Choose the Updates tab.

4. The Backup restore Update type provides the following information:

   • PENDING indicates that the file metadata is being downloaded onto the volume. The volume's Lifecycle state is CREATING.

   • IN_PROGRESS indicates that the volume is available and clients can mount the volume with read-only access to data. The Progress % shows the percentage of data that has been downloaded to the volume.

   • COMPLETED indicates that all data has been downloaded to the volume, and the backup restore is complete. Clients now have read-write access. For RW volumes, the volume's type changes from DP to RW at this point.

To monitor progress when restoring a backup (CLI)

• When you restore a backup to a new volume on a second-generation FSx for ONTAP file system, you can monitor the progress of the restore using the describe-volumes CLI command.

  When restoring a backup to a second-generation file system, the response includes the AdministrativeActions object, which provides status information about the data downloading process. The

  $ aws fsx describe-volumes
  {
      “Volumes”: [
          {
             	“CreationTime”: 1691686114.674,
             	“FileSystemId”: fs-029ff92192bd4d375,
             	“LifeCycle”: “CREATING”,
             	“Name”: vol1,
             	“OntapConfiguration”: {
                   		“FlexCacheEndpointType”: “NONE”,
                   		“JunctionPath”: “/vol1”,
                   		“SizeInMegabytes”: 100000,
                   		“StorageEfficiencyEnabled”: true,
                   		“StorageVirtualMachineId”: “svm-0ed1d714019426ca9”,
                   		“StorageVirtualMachineRoot”: false,
                   		“TieringPolicy”: {
                   			“Name”: “ALL”
                   		},
                   		“OntapVolumeType”: “DP”,
                   		“SnapshotPolicy”: “default”,
                   		“CopyTagsToBackups”: false,
                   	},
                   	“ResourceARN”: “arn:aws:fsx:us-east-1:630831496844:volume/fs-08ac75f715c6aec76/fsvol-094c015af930790fa”,
                   	“VolumeId”: “fsvol-094c015af930790fa”,
                   	“VolumeType”: “ONTAP”,
                   	“AdministrativeActions”: [
                         		{
                         			“AdministrativeActionType”: “DOWNLOAD_DATA_FROM_BACKUP”,
                         			“RequestTime”: 1685729972.069,
                         			“Status”: “PENDING”
                         		}
    	               ]
      }

  Once Amazon FSx loads all of the file metadata onto the restored volume, these fields have the following values:

  • "LifeCycle": "CREATED" – indicates that the volume is ready to be mounted.

  • "OntapVolumeType": "DP" – indicates that the volume is read-only while the file data is downloading.

  • "ProgressPercent –shows the percentage of file data that is loaded onto the volume.

  • "Status": "IN_PROGRESS" – downloading the file data to the volume is in progress.

  At this stage in the restore process you can mount the volume with read-only access to all the data in the backup that you are restoring.

  When Amazon FSx has completed downloading all the file data onto the new volume, clients have full read-write access if this is RW volume. The indicators have the following values:

  • "LifeCycle": "CREATED" – unchanged

  • "OntapVolumeType": "RW" – indicates that clients have full read-write access.

  • "Status": "COMPLETED" – indicates that the restore is complete.

  If the restore process fails, the AdminstrativeAction > Status will have a value of FAILED. An error message is provided in the FailureDetails object. For more information, see AdministrativeActionFailureDetails in the Amazon FSx API Reference