Reconnecting Tape Devices to Tape Server

If you have the tape devices connected directly, you can reconfigure your tape infrastructure and start using a dedicated tape server. In this case, all tape device settings will remain unchanged.

To reconnect the tape device, you must perform the following steps:

1. Choose a machine that will act as the tape server. The tape server must be a dedicated Microsoft Windows server, physical or virtual, accessible by Veeam Backup Free Edition.
2. Reconnect the tape device to the machine that will perform the role of the tape server. You can connect the tape device directly over Fibre Channel (FC), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), SCSI) or remotely with iSCSI (you can use Microsoft iSCSI initiator to establish the connection).
3. Add the server as the tape server to Veeam Backup Free Edition: the connected tape device will be discovered automatically.