[Veritas-bu] Cleaning Quandary
2006-09-18 11:46:29
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[Veritas-bu] Cleaning Quandary |
From: |
brooksje at longwood.edu (Brooks, Jason) |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:46:29 -0400 |
This was the first instance I've seen in almost one year. So, I don't
figure they're used up. Watching...
Thanks for the help.
Jason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf
> Of Paul Keating
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:08 AM
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning Quandary
>
> Ok, so it sounds like you are using NBU to do the cleanings. ;o)
>
> Yes, then regular barcodes will work.
>
> Do you have a default setting for cleanings? Depending on the
> drive type you can get more or less cleanings from a
> tape...could be from 15 to 50, depending on the drive type. I
> think it's close to 50 for LTO3.
>
> You want to set this in NBU so when you put in a new cleaning
> tape, you don't have to remember to go in and set the number
> of cleanings.
>
> If you already had a deault set in Netbackup, and they were
> all showing 0, then it sounds like they were used up.
>
> Granted, I think I've used up maybe 1 or 2 tapes, set at 25
> cleanings in each of my LTO2/LTO3 libraries in 2 years.
>
> Paul
>
> --
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:brooksje at longwood.edu]
> > Sent: September 15, 2006 3:34 PM
> > To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning Quandary
> >
> >
> > Well, I found the problem. First, support was incorrect; plain
> > barcodes work. I remember when I imported the tapes,
> something about
> > setting the number of cleanings. When I looked, all the
> tapes were 0.
> > I set one up with valid cleanings, which I believe them to
> have, and
> > it worked. As for the tapes, they were purchased as LTO3 cleaning
> > tapes.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions.
> >
> > Jason
>
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