If you use an AWS Storage Gateway as your virtual tape library you may accidentally move one (or more) of your tapes to archive (export in Backup Exec). Once you initiate this process there is no way to stop it in the AWS console! You will just see the Transfer to VTS message and have to wait a very long time. Fortunately you can stop it using the AWS CLI. You will need your gateway arn and your tape arn (you can find these in Backup Exec) and stop the transfer one tape at a time.
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