> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:23:20 +0100, Salvatore Buccoliero <sb AT EXELLO DOT DK>
> wrote:
> 
> >One thing i want to add to the cleaning discussion.
> >
> >If NetWorker is installed on a W2k server, NetWorker can actually handle
> >the cleaning signal from the device. In that case you get the best of
> >two worlds: Cleaning when needed, and NetWorker knows it is happening
> >and the cleaning does not disturb the running backups/restores.
> 
> Sadly (from this viewpoint) the site I am working at uses Solaris and NT4
> NetWorker servers. I wonder if Legato plan to put this on other platforms,
> or if it is indeed possible.

The problem with this is that there is usually no API for handling that kind
of information on the platforms of today, at least nothing general.
Remember that we are handling the tape drive and traditionally we
have only read/write operations + some ioctl() for FSF, BSF and so on.

BRGDS



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