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Getting Started with Tapes

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To start working with tapes in Veeam Backup & Replication, you need to complete the following steps:

Connect the tape device to a tape server.
Add the tape server to Veeam Backup & Replication.
Load tapes to the tape device (if not yet loaded) and run the importing procedure for them.
Create one or more custom media pool or GFS media pool that will be used as targets for tape jobs.
Configure one or more media vaults to conveniently organize offline tapes.
Configure and run files to tape jobs.
Configure and run backup to tape or files to tape jobs.
Restore VMs to infrastructure or to repository, or restore files from tape.