AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Creating Tapes
2. In the
Allocation
column next to your upload buffer disk, choose
Upload Buffer
.
3. Choose
Cache
for the disk you want to configure as cache storage.
If you don't see your disks, choose
Refresh
.
4. Choose
Save and continue
to save your configuration settings.
Next Step
Creating Tapes
Note
You are charged only for the amount of data you write to the tape, not the tape capacity.
You can use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt data written to a virtual tape
that is stored in Amazon S3. Currently, you can do this by using the AWS Storage Gateway API
Reference. For more information, see
or
.
To create virtual tapes
1. In the navigation pane, choose the
Gateways
tab.
2. Choose
Create tapes
to open the
Create tapes
dialog box.
3. For
Gateway
, choose a gateway. The tape is created for this gateway.
4. For
Number of tapes
, choose the number of tapes you want to create. For more information about
AWS Storage Gateway Limits (p. 395)
.
5. For
Capacity
, type the size of the virtual tape you want to create. Tapes must be larger than 100GiB.
For information about capacity limits, see
AWS Storage Gateway Limits (p. 395)
6. For
Barcode prefix
, type the prefix you want to prepend to the barcode of your virtual tapes.
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