AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Using Your Tape Gateway
Importing a Tape into Veeam
You are now ready to import tapes from your tape gateway into the Veeam backup application library.
To import a tape into the Veeam library
1. Open the context (right–click) menu for the medium changer, and choose
Import
to import the
tapes to the I/E slots.
2. Open the context (right–click) menu for the medium charger, and choose
Inventory Library
to
identify unrecognized tapes. When you load a new virtual tape into a tape drive for the first time,
the tape is not recognized by the Veeam backup application. To identify the unrecognized tape, you
inventory the tapes in the tape library.
Backing Up Data to a Tape in Veeam
Backing data to a tape is a two-step process:
1. You create a media pool and add the tape to the media pool.
2. You write data to the tape.
You create a media pool and write data to a virtual tape by using the same procedures you do with
physical tapes. For detailed information about how to back up data, see the
in the
Veeam Help Center.
Archiving a Tape by Using Veeam
When you archive a tape, tape gateway moves the tape from the Veeam tape library to the offline
storage. You begin tape archival by ejecting from the tape drive to the storage slot and then exporting
the tape from the slot to the archive by using your backup application—that is, the Veeam software.
To archive a tape in the Veeam library
1. Choose
Backup Infrastructure
, and choose the media pool that contains the tape you want to
archive.
2. Open the context (right–click) menu for the tape that you want to archive, and then choose
Eject
Tape
.
3. For
Ejecting tape
, choose
Close
. The location of the tape changes from a tape drive to a slot.
4. Open the context (right–click) menu for the tape again, and then choose
Export
. The status of the
tape changes from
Tape drive
to
Offline
.
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