AWS Storage Gateway - Creating Tapes

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Creating Tapes

2. In the Allocation column next to your upload buﬀer disk, choose Upload Buﬀer.

3. Choose Cache for the disk you want to conﬁgure as cache storage.

If you don't see your disks, choose Refresh.

4. Choose Save and continue to save your conﬁguration settings.

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Creating Tapes (p. 82)

Creating Tapes

Note

You are charged only for the amount of data you write to the tape, not the tape capacity.

You can use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt data written to a virtual tape

that is stored in Amazon S3. Currently, you can do this by using the AWS Storage Gateway API

Reference. For more information, see CreateTapes or create-tapes.

To create virtual tapes

1. In the navigation pane, choose the Gateways tab.

2. Choose Create tapes to open the Create tapes dialog box.

3. For Gateway, choose a gateway. The tape is created for this gateway.

4. For Number of tapes, choose the number of tapes you want to create. For more information about

tape limits, see AWS Storage Gateway Limits (p. 395).

5. For Capacity, type the size of the virtual tape you want to create. Tapes must be larger than 100GiB.

For information about capacity limits, see AWS Storage Gateway Limits (p. 395).

6. For Barcode preﬁx, type the preﬁx you want to prepend to the barcode of your virtual tapes.

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