# Testing Your Setup by Using Veritas NetBackup
You can back up your data to virtual tapes, archive the tapes, and manage your virtual tape library (VTL) devices by using Veritas NetBackup. In this topic, you can find basic documentation on how to configure the NetBackup application for a Tape Gateway and perform a backup and restore operation.
For detailed information about how to use NetBackup, see the [Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)](https://sort.veritas.com/documents) page on the Veritas website.
For more information about compatible backup applications, see [Supported third-party backup applications for a Tape Gateway](Requirements.md#requirements-backup-sw-for-vtl).
**Topics**
+ [Configuring NetBackup Storage Devices](#configure-netback-storage-devices)
+ [Backing Up Data to a Tape](#GettingStarted-backup-data-VTL)
+ [Archiving the Tape](#GettingStarted-archiving-tapes-vtl)
+ [Restoring Data from the Tape](#restore-data-vtl)
## Configuring NetBackup Storage Devices
After you have connected the virtual tape library (VTL) devices to the Windows client, you configure Veritas NetBackup storage to recognize your devices. For information about how to connect VTL devices to the Windows client, see [Connecting your VTL devices](GettingStartedAccessTapesVTL.md).
**To configure NetBackup to use storage devices on your Tape Gateway**
1. Open the NetBackup Administration Console as an administrator.
1. Choose **Configure Storage Devices** to open the Device Configuration wizard.
1. Choose **Next**. The NetBackup application detects your computer as a device host.
1. In the **Device Hosts** column, select your computer, and then choose **Next**. The NetBackup application scans your computer for devices and discovers all devices.
1. In the **Scanning Hosts** page, choose **Next**, and then choose **Next**. The NetBackup application finds all 10 tape drives and the medium changer on your computer.
1. In the **Backup Devices** window, choose **Next**.
1. In the **Drag and Drop Configuration** window, verify that your medium changer is selected, and then choose **Next.**
1. In the dialog box that appears, choose **Yes** to save the configuration on your computer. The NetBackup application updates the device configuration.
1. When the update is completed, choose **Next** to make the devices available to the NetBackup application.
1. In the **Finished\$1** window, choose **Finish**.
**To verify your devices in the NetBackup application**
1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand the **Media and Device Management** node, and then expand the **Devices** node. Choose **Drives** to display all the tape drives.
1. In the **Devices** node, choose **Robots** to display all your medium changers. In the NetBackup application, the medium changer is called a *robot*.
1. In the **All Robots** pane, open the context (right-click) menu for **TLD(0)** (that is, your robot), and then choose **Inventory Robot**.
1. In the **Robot Inventory** window, verify that your host is selected from the **Device-Host** list located in the **Select robot** category.
1. Verify that your robot is selected from the **Robot** list.
1. In the **Robot Inventory** window, select **Update volume configuration**, select **Preview changes**, select **Empty media access port prior to update**, and then choose **Start**.
The process then inventories your medium changer and virtual tapes in the NetBackup Enterprise Media Management (EMM) database. NetBackup stores media information, device configuration, and tape status in the EMM.
1. In the **Robot Inventory** window, choose **Yes** once the inventory is complete. Choosing **Yes** here updates the configuration and moves virtual tapes found in import/export slots to the virtual tape library.
1. Close the **Robot Inventory** window.
1. In the **Media** node, expand the **Robots** node and choose **TLD(0)** to show all virtual tapes that are available to your robot (medium changer).
**Note**
If you have previously connected other devices to the NetBackup application, you might have multiple robots. Make sure that you select the right robot.
Now that you have connected your devices and made them available to your backup application, you are ready to test your gateway. To test your gateway, you back up data onto the virtual tapes you created and archive the tapes.
## Backing Up Data to a Tape
You test the Tape Gateway setup by backing up data onto your virtual tapes.
**Note**
You should back up only a small amount of data for this Getting Started exercise, because there are costs associated with storing, archiving, and retrieving data. For pricing information, see [Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/pricing) on the Storage Gateway detail page.
If your Tape Gateway restarts for any reason during an ongoing backup job, the backup job will be suspended. The suspended backup job will resume automatically when your gateway finishes restarting.
**To create a volume pool**
A *volume pool* is a collection of virtual tapes to use for a backup.
1. Start the NetBackup Administration Console.
1. Expand the **Media** node, open the context (right-click) menu for **Volume Pool**, and then choose **New**. The **New Volume Pool** dialog box appears.
1. For **Name**, type a name for your volume pool.
1. For **Description**, type a description for the volume pool, and then choose **OK**. The volume pool you just created is added to the volume pool list.
The following screenshot shows a list of volume pools.
**To add virtual tapes to a volume pool**
1. Expand the **Robots** node, and select the **TLD(0)** robot to display the virtual tapes this robot is aware of.
If you have previously connected a robot, your Tape Gateway robot might have a different name.
1. From the list of virtual tapes, open the context (right-click) menu for the tape you want to add to the volume pool, and choose **Change** to open the **Change Volumes** dialog box.
1. For **Volume Pool**, choose **New pool**.
1. For **New pool**, select the pool you just created, and then choose **OK**.
You can verify that your volume pool contains the virtual tape that you just added by expanding the **Media** node and choosing your volume pool.
**To create a backup policy**
The backup policy specifies what data to back up, when to back it up, and which volume pool to use.
1. Choose your **Master Server** to return to the Veritas NetBackup console.
1. Choose **Create a Policy** to open the **Policy Configuration Wizard** window.
1. Select **File systems, databases, applications**, and choose **Next**.
1. For **Policy Name**, type a name for your policy and verify that **MS-Windows** is selected from the **Select the policy type** list, and then choose **Next**.
1. In the **Client List** window, choose **Add**, type the host name of your computer in the **Name** column, and then choose **Next**. This step applies the policy you are defining to `localhost` (your client computer).
1. In the **Files** window, choose **Add**, and then choose the folder icon.
1. In the **Browse** window, browse to the folder or files you want to back up, choose **OK**, and then choose **Next**.
1. In the **Backup Types** window, accept the defaults, and then choose **Next**.
**Note**
If you want to initiate the backup yourself, select **User Backup**.
1. In the **Frequency and Retention** window, select the frequency and retention policy you want to apply to the backup. For this exercise, you can accept all of the defaults and choose** Next**.
1. In the **Start** window, select **Off hours**, and then choose **Next**. This selection specifies that your folder should be backed up during off hours only.
1. In the **Policy Configuration** wizard, choose **Finish**.
The policy runs the backups according to the schedule. You can also perform a manual backup at any time, which we do in the next step.
**To perform a manual backup**
1. On the navigation pane of the NetBackup console, expand the **NetBackup Management** node.
1. Expand the **Policies** node.
1. Open the context (right-click) menu for your policy, and choose **Manual Backup**.
1. In the **Manual Backup** window, select a schedule, select a client, and then choose **OK**.
1. In the **Manual Backup Started** dialog box that appears, choose **OK**.
1. On the navigation pane, choose **Activity Monitor** to view the status of your backup in the **Job ID** column.
To find the barcode of the virtual tape where NetBackup wrote the file data during the backup, look in the **Job Details** window as described in the following procedure. You need this barcode in the procedure in the next section, where you archive the tape.
**To find the barcode of a tape**
1. In **Activity Monitor**, open the context (right-click) menu for the identifier of your backup job in the **Job ID** column, and then choose **Details**.
1. In the **Job Details** window, choose the **Detailed Status** tab.
1. In the **Status** box, locate the media ID. For example, an entry in the status report might read `media id 87A222`. This ID helps you determine which tape you have written data to.
You have now successfully deployed a Tape Gateway, created virtual tapes, and backed up your data. Next, you can archive the virtual tapes and retrieve them from the archive.
## Archiving the Tape
When you archive a tape, Tape Gateway moves the tape from your gateway’s virtual tape library (VTL) to the archive, which provides offline storage. You initiate tape archival by ejecting the tape using your backup application.
**To archive a virtual tape**
1. In the NetBackup Administration console, expand the **Media and Device Management** node, and expand the **Media** node.
1. Expand **Robots** and choose **TLD**(0).
1. Open the context (right-click) menu for the virtual tape you want to archive, and choose **Eject Volume From Robot**.
1. In the **Eject Volumes** window, make sure the **Media ID** matches the virtual tape you want to eject, and then choose **Eject**.
1. In the dialog box, choose **Yes**.
When the eject process is completed, the status of the tape in the **Eject Volumes** dialog box indicates that the eject succeeded.
1. Choose **Close** to close the **Eject Volumes** window.
1. In the Storage Gateway console, verify the status of the tape you are archiving in the gateway's VTL. It can take some time to finish uploading data to AWS. During this time, the ejected tape is listed in the gateway's VTL with the status **IN TRANSIT TO VTS**. When archiving starts, the status is **ARCHIVING**. Once data upload has completed, the ejected tape is no longer listed in the VTL but is archived in S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
1. To verify that the virtual tape is no longer listed in your gateway, choose your gateway, and then choose **VTL Tape Cartridges**.
1. In the navigation pane of the Storage Gateway console, choose **Tapes**. Verify that your archived tape's status is **ARCHIVED**.
## Restoring Data from the 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](retrieving-archived-tapes-vtl.md).
1. Use the Backup, Archive, and Restore software installed with the Veritas NetBackup application. This process is the same as restoring data from physical tapes. For instructions, see [Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)](https://sort.veritas.com/documents) on the Veritas website.
**Next Step**
[Cleaning up unecessary resources](best-practices.md#cleanup-vtl)