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Once the Transfer Appliance team receives your appliance, the data
is transferred from the appliance into your Cloud Storage destination
bucket. After the data transfer is complete, a confirmation email is sent
verifying that the data was transferred successfully. You can validate that
the data was transferred using the following methods.
Review the list of objects in your bucket
To validate your data, review the list of objects in your bucket using the
instructions below:
Verify that the data you transferred to the appliance is listed in your
bucket.
Review transfer log files in your bucket
After the data transfer is complete, you can review automatically generated
.csv log files in the destination bucket that list the files that
successfully transferred and failed to transfer from the appliance.
To find the most recent transfer log files, check the folder with the latest
TIMESTAMP.
Once the appliance is onsite, the Transfer Appliance team moves the
data from the appliance to the destination bucket. After the data is
transferred, additional
transfer logs
are generated in the destination bucket that list details about the transfer
such as error codes and details about each file. To review all the
information listed in the transfer log, refer to the
transfer log details
table.
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