AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Understanding Volume Status and Transitions
Status
Meaning
Deleting
The volume is currently being deleted. The
Deleting
status is transitional. No
action is required.
Irrecoverable
An error occurred from which the volume cannot recover. For information on
what to do in this situation, see
Troubleshooting Volume Issues (p. 331)
.
Pass Through
Data maintained locally is out of sync with data stored in AWS. Data written
to a volume while the volume is in
Pass Through
status remains in the cache
until the volume status is
Bootstrapping
. This data starts to upload to AWS
when
Bootstrapping
status begins.
The
Pass Through
status can occur for several reasons, listed following:
• The
Pass Through
status occurs if your gateway has run out of upload
buffer space. Your applications can continue to read from and write data
to your storage volumes while the volumes have the
Pass Through
status.
However, the gateway isn't writing any of your volume data to its upload
buffer or uploading any of this data to AWS.
The gateway continues to upload any data written to the volume before
the volume entered the
Pass Through
status. Any pending or scheduled
snapshots of a storage volume fail while the volume has the
Pass Through
status. For information about what to do when your storage volume has
the
Pass Through
status because the upload buffer has been exceeded,
see
Troubleshooting Volume Issues (p. 331)
To return to ACTIVE status, a volume in
Pass Through
must complete the
Bootstrapping
phase. During
Bootstrapping
, the volume re-establishes
synchronization with in AWS, so that it can resume the record (log) of
changes to the volume, and re-enable
CreateSnapshot
functionality.
During
Bootstrapping
, writes to the volume are recorded in upload buffer.
• The
Pass Through
status occurs when there is more than one storage
volume bootstrapping at once. Only one gateway storage volume can
bootstrap at a time. For example, suppose that you create two storage
volumes and choose to preserve existing data on both of them. In this
case, the second storage volume has the
Pass Through
status until
the first storage volume finishes bootstrapping. In this scenario, you
don't need to act. Each storage volume changes to the
Available
status
automatically when it is finished being created. You can read and write
to the storage volume while it has the
Pass Through
or
Bootstrapping
status.
• Infrequently, the
Pass Through
status can indicate that a disk allocated
for upload buffer use has failed. For information about what action to take
in this scenario, see
Troubleshooting Volume Issues (p. 331)
.
• The
Pass Through
status can occur when a volume is in
Active
or
Bootstrapping
state. In this case, the volume receives a write, but the
upload buffer has insufficient capacity to record (log) that write.
• The
Pass Through
status occurs when a volume is in any state and the
gateway is not shut down cleanly. This type of shutdown can happen
because the software crashed or the VM was powered off. In this case, a
volume in any state transitions to
Pass Through
status.
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