[Veritas-bu] No response concerning tape alert?

Library scheduled here as well. We've had no issues.  If you have the
capability built into your library to schedule a time to clean drives
vs. after a certain number of mounts, I would go that way. We do ours in
the afternoons. When we had it set up to clean *after a certain # of
mounts*, we were getting a lot of errors b/c Netbackup would get 1/2 way
thru a backup and need another tape to finish it, kick the first tape
out, mount a cleaning tape and then get all pissy b/c the drive it
wanted to use was unavailable.

~Kate


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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:24:15PM -0700, Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com wrote:
> In general, I've heard nothing bad about tape alert cleaning.  The 
> mistake, usually, is library-based cleaning.  If you use library-based

> cleaning, then the library, without any alert to Netbackup, can chose 
> to clean a tape drive, usually using a pseudo-hidden cleaning tape 
> from a reserved slot.  If the library cleans the tape drive & 
> Netbackup doesn't know about it, then NB can try to use the drive when

> a cleaning is occurring.  The tape mount will fail & NB will down the 
> drive.
>  
> For an SSO environment, your only NB-based option is tape alert 
> cleaning. Frequency-based (at least in v5.x & down) doesn't work in 
> SSO because the media servers make no attempt to coordinate hours of 
> run time for each drive.

We're in an SSO environment and we use library-based cleaning.  We've
been doing for about 3-4 years and have not had issues.

YMMV.

        .../Ed

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