On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:08:01PM -0400, Stan Horwitz wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Joel Fisher wrote:
> >
> > Anyone ever had a problem with the auto-clean not working.  I've got
> > both of the libraries set to not automatically clean(hardware), and then
> > in NetWorker I've set auto-clean to yes.  This used to work... it
> > stopped working at some point.  I'm not sure if it has ever worked with
> > 6.0.3.  Even when I set "Cleaning Required" to yes it doesn't clean the
> > drives.
> >
> > Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Just a thought, but perhaps NetWorker thinks your cleaning tape needs to
> be replaced. Do an "nsrjb -C" and grep for the slot where the cleaning
> tape is kept and also, make sure that a cleaning tape is actually in the
> slot NetWorker thinks it should be in and not mistakenly placed elsewhere.
>

I've never had auto cleaning work unless I do one manual clean for
each drive first. I think it's a problem Networker has in calculating
the next cleaning date if the previous cleaning date didn't exist.

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