AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Using Your Tape Gateway
• Load the virtual tape into media pool
In the following sections, you can find steps to guide you through this process.
Loading Virtual Tapes into a Tape Library
Your tape library should now be listed under Devices. If you don't see it, press F5 to refresh the screen.
When your library is listed, you can load virtual tapes into the library.
To load virtual tapes into your tape library
1. Choose the plus sign next to your tape library to display the nodes for robotics paths, drives, and
slots.
2. Open the context (right-click) menu for Drives, choose Add Drive, type a name for your tape, and
then choose Next to continue.
3. Choose the tape drive you want to add for SCSI address of data drive, choose Automatically
discover changed SCSI address, and then choose Next.
4. On the following screen, choose Advanced. The Advanced Options pop-up screen appears.
a. On the Settings tab, you should consider the following options:
• CRC Check (to detect accidental data changes)
• Detect dirty drive (to ensure the drive is clean before backup)
• SCSI Reserve/Release(drive) (to avoid tape contention)
For testing purposes, you can leave these options disabled (unchecked).
b. On the Sizes tab, set the Block size (kB) to Default (256).
c. Choose OK to close the advanced options screen, and then choose Next to continue.
5. On the next screen, choose these options under Device Policies:
• Device may be used for restore
• Device may be used as source device for object copy
6. Choose Finish to finish adding your tape drive to your tape library.
Loading Virtual Tapes into Slots
Now that you have a tape drive in your tape library, you can load virtual tapes into slots.
To load a tape into a slot
1. In the tape library tree node, open the node labeled Slots. Each slot has a status represented by an
icon:
• A green tape means that a tape is already loaded into the slot.
• A gray slot means that the slot is empty.
• A cyan question mark means that the tape in that slot is not formatted.
2. For an empty slot, open the context (right-click) menu, and then choose Enter. If you have existing
tapes, choose one to load into that slot.
Creating a Media Pool
A media pool is a logical group used to organize your tapes. To set up tape backup, you create a media
pool.
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