Deploying Tape Devices

To add the tape devices to Veeam Backup Free Edition, you need to perform the following steps:

1. Connect the tape devices to the machine that will act as the tape server. You can choose between the following options:

• Deploy a dedicated Microsoft Windows server, physical or virtual, accessible by Veeam Backup Free Edition.
• Use the Veeam backup server as the tape server.

2. Add this machine to Veeam Backup Free Edition as a tape server.

If you connect tape devices to the Veeam backup server, you also need to go through the adding procedure.