AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Using Your Tape Gateway
3. Open the context (right-click) menu for each new tape and choose Inventory.
4. Open the context (right-click) menu for each new tape and choose Format.
Each tape's barcode now appears in your Storage Gateway console, and each tape is ready to use.
Backing Up Data to a Tape
When your tapes have been loaded into Arcserve, you can back up data. The backup process is the same
as backing up physical tapes.
To back up data to a tape
1. From the Quick Start menu, open the restore a backup session.
2. Choose the Source tab, and then choose the file system or database system that you want to back
up.
3. Choose the Schedule tab and choose the repeat method you want to use.
4. Choose the Destination tab and then choose the tape you want to use. If the data you are backing
up is larger than the tape can hold, Arcserve prompts you to mount a new tape.
5. Choose Submit to back up your data.
Archiving a Tape
When you archive a tape, your tape gateway moves the tape from the tape library to the offline storage.
Before you eject and archive a tape, you might want to check the content on it.
To archive a tape
1. From the Quick Start menu, open the restore a backup session.
2. Choose the Source tab, and then choose the file system or database system you want to back up.
3. Choose the Schedule tab and choose the repeat method you want to use.
4. Choose your gateway, open the context (right-click) menu for one tape, and then choose Import/
Export Slot.
5. Assign a mail slot to load the tape. The status in the Storage Gateway console changes to Archive.
The archive process might take some time.
The archiving process can take some time to complete. The initial status of the tape appears as
IN TRANSIT TO VTS. When archiving starts, the status changes to ARCHIVING. When archiving is
completed, the tape is no longer listed in the VTL but is archived in S3 Glacier or S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
Restoring Data from a Tape
Restoring your archived data is a two-step process.
To restore data from an archived tape
1. Retrieve the archived tape to a tape gateway. For instructions, see Retrieving Archived
Tapes (p. 181).
2. Use Arcserve to restore the data. This process is the same as restoring data from physical tapes. For
instructions, see the Arcserve Backup r17 documentation.
To restore data from a tape, use the following procedure.
To restore data from a tape
1. From the Quick Start menu, open the restore a restore session.
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