AWS Storage Gateway - Working with Tapes

AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Working with Tapes
7. Open the context (right-click) menu for Unknown Medium Changer, and choose Update Driver
Software to open the Update Driver Software-unknown Medium Changer window.
8. Browse to the path of the new driver location and install. The driver appears as Sun/StorageTek
Library. The tape drives remain as an IBM ULT3580-TD5 SCSI sequential device.
9. Reboot the DPM server.
10. In the Storage Gateway console, create new tapes.
11. Open the DPM Administrator console, choose Management, then choose Rescan for new tape
libraries . You should see the Sun/StorageTek library.
12. Choose the library and choose Inventory.
13. Choose Add Tapes to add the new tapes into DPM. The new tapes should now display their
barcodes.
Working With Tapes
AWS Storage Gateway provides one virtual tape library (VTL) for each tape gateway you activate.
Initially, the library contains no tapes, but you can create tapes whenever you need to. Your application
can read and write to any tapes available on your tape gateway. A tape's status must be AVAILABLE for
you to write to the tape. These tapes are backed by Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)—that
is, when you write to these tapes, the tape gateway stores data in Amazon S3. For more information, see
Understanding Tape Status Information in a VTL (p. 183).
Topics
• Archiving Tapes (p. 362)
• Canceling Tape Archival (p. 362)
The tape library shows tapes in your tape gateway. The library shows the tape barcode, status, and size,
amount of the tape used, and the gateway the tape is associated with.
When you have a large number of tapes in the library, the console supports searching for tapes by
barcode, by status, or by both. When you search by barcode, you can filter by status and gateway.
To search by barcode, status, and gateway
1. Open the AWS Storage Gateway console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/storagegateway/home.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Tapes, and then type a value in the search box. The value can be
the barcode, status, or gateway. By default, AWS Storage Gateway searches for all virtual tapes.
However, you can also filter your search by status.
If you filter for status, tapes that match your criteria appear in the library in the AWS Storage
Gateway console.
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