This guide will show you how to install and configure StarWind VTL for AWS and Veeam. It’s a rocksolid production version which is available on the market. This software is not a beta or alpha or something other. To make it clear, i’m not only talking about homelabbers. We want more awesome and that’s the reason we go to the next level. And that’s the point where a Virtual Tape Library comes in very handy! You can emulate a complete tape library with software and even use this emulation in a availability software like Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Availability Suite! But that isn’t awesome enough. To be honest, most of us homelabbers don’t have a tape drive nor a tape library neither. And there are reasons why some companies still invent and develop new tape technologies like new LTO standards, new drives and libraries. If you heard about the recent ransomware WannaCry then you know what it means to airgap your backups. But tapes are coming up more and more again. You’ve been happy if a full backup fitted in a 8 hour window throughout the night. Daily incremental and weekly full backups. And some of you will not only have good memories of them. Most of you will know this kind of backup media type. So it did also during the write up of this guide. Or should i be worried? Well, as Veeam always says “It just works (TM)”. Now it’s finally done and i’m happy that everything worked at the first try. I wanted to test this use case for a long time.

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