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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 AWS@3.0.0 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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