AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Using Your Tape Gateway
5. In the Manual Backup Started dialog box that appears, choose OK.
6. On the navigation pane, choose Activity Monitor to view the status of your backup in the Job ID
column.
To find the barcode of the virtual tape where NetBackup wrote the file data during the backup, look in
the Job Details window as described in the following procedure. You need this barcode in the procedure
in the next section, where you archive the tape.
To find the barcode of a tape
1. In Activity Monitor, open the context (right-click) menu for the identifier of your backup job in the
Job ID column, and then choose Details.
2. In the Job Details window, choose the Detailed Status tab.
3. In the Status box, locate the media ID. For example, in the following screenshot, the media ID is
87A222. This ID helps you determine which tape you have written data to.
You have now successfully deployed a tape gateway, created virtual tapes, and backed up your data.
Next, you can archive the virtual tapes and retrieve them from the archive.
Archiving the Tape
When you archive a tape, tape gateway moves the tape from your gateway’s virtual tape library (VTL)
to the archive, which provides offline storage. You initiate tape archival by ejecting the tape using your
backup application.
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