AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Using Your Tape Gateway
9. Expand Backup Servers to see the Storage Gateway virtual tape library and the library partition that
shows all the mounted tape drives.
Creating a Tape Pool
A tape pool is dynamically created in the NovaStor DataCenter/Network software and so doesn't contain
a fixed number of media. A tape pool that needs a tape gets it from its scratch pool. A scratch pool is a
reservoir of tapes that are freely available for one or more tape pools to use. A tape pool returns to the
scratch pool any media that have exceeded their retention times and that are no longer needed.
Creating a tape pool is a three-step task:
1. You create a scratch pool.
2. You assign tapes to the scratch pool.
3. You create a tape pool.
To create a scratch pool
1. In the left navigation menu, choose the Scratch Pools tab.
2. Open the context (right-click) menu for Scratch Pools, and choose Create Scratch Pool.
3. In the Scratch Pools dialog box, name your scratch pool, and then choose your media type.
4. Choose Label Volume, and create a low water mark for the scratch pool. When the scratch pool is
emptied down to the low water mark, a warning appears.
5. In the warning dialog box that appears, choose OK to create the scratch pool.
To assign tapes to a scratch pool
1. In the left navigation menu, choose Tape Library Management.
2. Choose the Library tab to see your library's inventory.
3. Choose the tapes that you want to assign to the scratch pool. Make sure that the tapes are set to the
correct media type.
4. Open the context (right-click) menu for the library and choose Add to Scratch Pool.
You now have a filled scratch pool that you can use for tape pools.
To create a tape pool
1. From the left navigation menu, choose Tape Library Management.
2. Open the context (right-click) menu for the Media Pools tab and choose Create Media Pool.
3. Name the media pool and choose Backup Server.
4. Choose a library partition for the media pool.
5. Choose the scratch pool that you want the pool to get the tapes from.
6. For Schedule, choose Not Scheduled.
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