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[Veritas-bu] RE: Cleaning Media Not Working...

2001-07-17 14:30:13
Subject: [Veritas-bu] RE: Cleaning Media Not Working...
From: Andrew.Prince AT atlp DOT com (Andrew Prince)
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:30:13 -0700
Gregory and Others,

Please forgive my ignorance or outright stupidity... I am a hardware guy,
not a software guy, reading the list for insights to help customers...

Does your changer read bar code labels? Are you using bar code labels? Are
the cleaning tapes using bar codes that start with CLN...

DLT drives will know the tape is a cleaning tape when it is inserted into
the drive, but my understanding is that the software doesn't know it's a
cleaning tape unless you use "cleaning tape" barcodes (grey and start with
CLN) and the changer reads the bar codes.

Tape libraries made by ATL will only recognize a cleaning tape if you are
using cleaning tape labels (I think so anyway. Having worked for ATL less
than a year I could be wrong).

Also, the only way you can reuse a specific cleaning label on a subsequent
cleaning tape is to purge some database that Netbackup uses to keep track of
the cleaning tapes. So I've heard. And no I don't know how to do that...

I hope this helps, and doesn't confuse the issue more...


TTFN
Andrew Prince

> From: "Zielinski, Gregory J." <Gregory.Zielinski AT Honeywell DOT com>
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:43:29 -0700
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning Media Not Working
> 
> Having trouble with the cleaning media being recognized.  This is on a
> Monthly cleaning tape, we get the error message 
> "Physical Volume Library Media not found."  And when you look 
> on the devices
> tab you see that it finds a tape in slot 1 but the tape label 
> does not say
> "Cleaning Media"  When the tape is first placed into the 
> changer you can see
> that the change see that the tape is a cleaning media but the 
> software does
> not seem to recognize that the tape is a cleaning tape.
> 
> Any ideas on what to do next, we have redefined the job and 
> tried a new
> cleaning tape and the problem keeps coming back.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> > Gregory J. Zielinski

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