Deactivating Your Tape Gateway - Amazon Storage Gateway
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Deactivating Your Tape Gateway

You deactivate a Tape Gateway if the Tape Gateway has failed and you want to recover the tapes from the failed gateway to another gateway.

To recover the tapes, you must first deactivate the failed gateway. Deactivating a Tape Gateway locks down the virtual tapes in that gateway. That is, any data that you might write to these tapes after deactivating the gateway isn't sent to Amazon. You can only deactivate a gateway on the Storage Gateway console if the gateway is no longer connected to Amazon. If the gateway is connected to Amazon, you can't deactivate the Tape Gateway.

You deactivate a Tape Gateway as part of data recovery. For more information about recovering tapes, see You Need to Recover a Virtual Tape from a Malfunctioning Tape Gateway.

To deactivate your gateway

  1. Open the Storage Gateway console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/storagegateway/home.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Gateways, and then choose the failed gateway.

  3. Choose the Details tab for the gateway to display the deactivate gateway message.

  4. Choose Create recovery tapes.

  5. Choose Disable gateway.