Brian,


        Did you set the frequency.  I have my frequency set to 200 hours of 
mount time.  It will vary from place to place.
        
        You can use the gui or command line.  
        
        
        tpclean -F device_name clean_frequency
        
        
        
        
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> Question about DLT Cleaning.
> 
> We turned auto clean off on out STK 9710.  We also added 5 DLT per each Silo 
for
> DLT-CLN. Last night we received a lot of media errors, status code 84 -86. Non
> of the drives were clean. I didn't open the robot  to see if cleaning lights 
are
> on. Any suggestions. Is there anything else we need to do to get the cleaning 
to
> work?
> 
> Thanks, Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Kolodziejski
> 04/07/2000 11:52 AM
> 
> To:   Brian Drager/IT/VGI@VGINOTES
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: [Veritas-bu] Re: DLT Cleaning
> 
> 
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Mark Kolodziejski/IT/VGI on 04/07/2000 
11:51
> AM ---------------------------
> 
> 
> "W. Curtis Preston" <curtis AT colltech DOT com> on 04/06/2000 07:02:55 PM
> 
> To:   Rob Worman <rob AT colltech DOT com>, Steve Wills <steve AT redhat DOT 
> com>
> cc:   Paul Weaver <paulw AT stratech DOT com>, veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT 
> edu (bcc: Mark
>       Kolodziejski/IT/VGI)
> Subject:  Re: [Veritas-bu] Re: DLT Cleaning
> 
> 
> 
> Damn! Just when I thought I knew everything! ;)  If this functionality
> works, this is a Beautiful Thing (tm).
> Does anyone already have a script that uses cleanstats and complains if the
> cleaning tape is out?
> 
> At 05:00 PM 4/6/00 -0600, Rob Worman wrote:
> Something that Curtis didn't mention (I bet he wasn't aware of the
> functionality, as it's certainly never made clear in the NetBackup GUI, but
> it's mentioned on p.309 of the Media Manager 3.2 Admin Guide) is the fact
> that NetBackup can control the cleaning tape *no matter which method you
> choose* - time-based or demand-based.
> 
> >This is the way to have your cake and eat it too:
> >
> >    -turn off autoclean on your tape library
> >    -insert a cleaning tape into your library and configure a
> >     Netbackup volume of type "DLT-CLN"
> >    -for each of your DLT drives in this library, set the
> >     "Cleaning Frequency" to 0
> >    -set up some sort of cronjob (you can use the
> > /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/cleanstats, or write your own based on it) that
> > will periodically check the cleaning tape and raise an alarm when it's
> > about to run out.
> >
> >voila.  when one of your DLT's needs cleaning, a TapeAlert signal will get
> >sent, NetBackup will clean the drive, and after this happens frequently
> >enough, your cron job will email you that your cleaning tape needs to be
> >replaced.  (note that this implies that you're running NBU 3.2 - I'm not
> >sure if NBU <3.2 supports TapeAlert or not)
> 
> ---
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