Auto cleaning is bad, but do we have any other option ? I tried the tape 
alert, it won't work. When I decreased the cleaning frequency, I have seen too 
many drive failures. Now I kept the cleaning frequency to 40, things are pretty 
much stable. Not sure if this is optimal.

Environment : HP SureSTore L700, DLT8000, N-class HPUX 11.0

Anybody has any suggestions ?

Dayal
--

On Wed, 15 May 2002 08:58:38  
 Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>Beware.  I have a Sun L20 tape robot.  When I got it and wondered about 
>>setting up the auto-tape-cleaning facility on Netbackup, I then wondered >how 
>often DLT tape drives should be cleaned.  So I called Sun and got >their tape 
>gurus.  Their response was "don't auto-clean your drives,>you will wear out 
>your tape heads".  The party line from Sun is:
>clean your drives when they need cleaning, ie when you see the "needs
>cleaning" icon appear on the LCD of the tape robot.
>
>Is this good advice?  I don't know.  Since installing my L20 last summer
>and cleaning the drives once at the start, I have never seen the "needs
>cleaning" icon appear on my LCS screen.  So I have never cleaned my
>drives since.  I've had no problems or bad tapes either.  Maybe it was
>good advice from Sun, or maybe I'm just lucky.  Any other opinions?
>
>** Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D                         PHONE: 207-872-3659
>** Senior UNIX Sysadmin, Information Technology    EMAIL: jaearick AT colby 
>DOT edu
>** Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,               FAX: 207-872-3076
>** Waterville ME, 04901-8842
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>
>On Wed, 15 May 2002, William Enestvedt wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 08:47:09 -0400
>> From: William Enestvedt <Will.Enestvedt AT jwu DOT edu>
>> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> Subject: [Veritas-bu] TapeAlert cleaning, TLD, and Pools
>>
>> If I want my DLT robots to clean themselves automatically -- instead of
>> downing the drive and mewling until I return in the morning -- do the
>> cleaning tapes need to be in a specific Pool? My environment is: NBU
>> DataCenter 3.4; Solaris 2.6 on servers & clients; a Master Server w/Sun L9
>> (a Quantum DLT8000 drive with 9 tapes), and a Media Server w/Sun L9.
>>    Thanks in adnvance for any suggestions.
>> -wde
>> --
>> Will Enestvedt
>> UNIX System Administrator
>> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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