# Testing your gateway
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You test your Volume Gateway setup by performing the following tasks:

1. Write data to the volume.

1. Take a snapshot.

1. Restore the snapshot to another volume.



You verify the setup for a gateway by taking a snapshot backup of your volume and storing the snapshot in AWS. You then restore the snapshot to a new volume. Your gateway copies the data from the specified snapshot in AWS to the new volume.

**Note**  
Restoring data from Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are encrypted is not supported.

**To create an Amazon EBS snapshot of a storage volume on Microsoft Windows**

1. On your Windows computer, copy some data to your mapped storage volume.

   The amount of data copied doesn't matter for this demonstration. A small file is enough to demonstrate the restore process.

1. In the navigation pane of the Storage Gateway console, choose **Volumes**.

1. Choose the storage volume that you created for the gateway.

   This gateway should have only one storage volume. Choose the volume displays its properties.

1. For **Actions**, choose **Create EBS snapshot** to create a snapshot of the volume.

   Depending on the amount of data on the disk and the upload bandwidth, it might take a few seconds to complete the snapshot. Note the volume ID for the volume from which you create a snapshot. You use the ID to find the snapshot.

1. In the **Create EBS Snapshot** dialog box, provide a description for your snapshot.

1. (Optional) For **Tags**, enter a key and value to add tags to the snapshot. A tag is a case-sensitive key-value pair that helps you manage, filter, and search for your snapshots. 

1. Choose **Create Snapshot**. Your snapshot is stored as an Amazon EBS snapshot. Note your snapshot ID. The number of snapshots created for your volume is displayed in the snapshot column.

1. In the **EBS snapshots** column, choose the link for the volume that you created the snapshot for to see your EBS snapshot on the Amazon EC2 console.



**To restore a snapshot to another volume**  
See [Creating a storage volume](GettingStartedCreateVolumes.md).