AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Using Your Tape Gateway
2. Open the context (right-click) menu for
localhost
, and then choose
Launch Application
.
3. Choose the
Devices
tab, open the context (right-click) menu for
Libraries
, and then choose
Scan for
Devices
.
4. In the Scan for Devices wizard, choose
Start Scan
, and then choose
OK
from the dialog box that
appears.
5. Expand the
Libraries
folder tree to see all your libraries. This process might take a few seconds to
load the devices into the library.
6. Open the context (right-click) menu for your library, and then choose
Configure All Libraries
.
7. In the
Provide General Configuration Information
box, choose the configuration settings you want,
and then choose
Next
.
8. In the
Select Target Storage Nodes
box, verify that a storage node is selected, and then choose
Start Configuration
. The selected storage node will have
Configure
selected.
9. In the Start Configuration wizard, choose
Finish
.
10. Choose your library to see your tapes in the left pane and the corresponding empty volume slots list
in the right pane. In this screenshot, the
library is selected.
11. In the volume list, select the volumes you want to enable (selected volumes are highlighted), open
the context (right-click) menu for the selected volumes, and then choose
Deposit
. This action moves
the tape from the I/E slot into the volume slot.
12. In the dialog box that appears, choose
Yes
, and then in the
Load the Cartridges into
dialog box,
choose
Yes
.
13. If you don't have any more tapes to deposit, choose
No
or
Ignore
. Otherwise, choose
Yes
to deposit
additional tapes.
Enabling Import of WORM Tapes into Dell EMC NetWorker
You are now ready to import tapes from your tape gateway into the Dell EMC NetWorker library.
The virtual tapes are write once read many (WORM) tapes, but Dell EMC NetWorker expects non-WORM
tapes. For Dell EMC NetWorker to work with your virtual tapes, you must enable import of tapes into
non-WORM media pools.
To enable import of WORM tapes into non-WORM media pools
1. On NetWorker Console, choose
Media
, open the context (right-click) menu for
localhost
, and then
choose
Properties
.
2. In the
NetWorker Sever Properties
window, choose the
Configuration
tab.
3. In the
Worm tape handling
section, clear the
WORM tapes only in WORM pools
box, and then
choose
OK
.
Backing Up Data to a Tape in Dell EMC NetWorker
Backing up data to a tape is a two-step process.
1. Label the tapes you want to back up your data to, create the target media pool, and add the tapes to
the pool.
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