I have a question on a similar topic to the above.

I have a DLT7000 tape library. How does the (hardware) automatic tape
cleaning work? I am currently using frequency cleaning at the moment but
I have been told that you should not do this...

I have the cleaning tapes in the None group. Does the tape library ask
netbackup for a cleaning tape and netbackup will process and clean the
drive?

Cheers,

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Andrew Wilkin
> Sent: 03 March 2002 23:38
> To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Cc: 'louis.francoeur AT mdsps DOT com'
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Autocleaning of drive in STK L700
> 
> 
> Hi Louis , 
> 
> You are only suppose to use a cleaning tape for 20 uses, check within
> the library front display (menu) that the cleaning tape has NOT been
> used-up. If it has expired (replace it), this is probably why you are
> getting messages with syslog.
> 
> You should let the robot do it's own cleaning rather then 
> Veritas, this
> is what a StorageTek engineer had told me in the past.
> 
> Regards 
> 
> Andrew Wilkin 
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> 
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> 
> What is the recommendation for cleaning DLT drives in a L700? 
> 
> I used to do it with the library but now I am seeing messages in my
> syslog: 
> 
> ltid[21962]: Automatic cleaning of TLD(0) drive index 4 failed because
> there is 
> 
> no cleaning tape or the cleaning tape is used up 
> 
> But when I check the drive, it is fine and there is a 
> cleaning tape but
> it is 
> 
> managed by the library. 
> 
> Should I let Veritas do the cleaning or how do you turn 
> tapealert off? 
> 
> Veritas Datacenter 3.4 (Patch 3.4.2) on HP-UX 11.0 
> 
> TIA 
> 
> Louis Francoeur 
> 
> Unix system administrator 
> 
> MDS Pharma Services 
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