Just as a point of note -- it's generally considered bad practice to 
clean a drive more often than necessary. I assume the autoclean on the
library isn't frequency based, but rather based on sensors in the drive
that know how much buildup is on the heads or how far outside some
threshold the drive is reading and writing.

I know my tape drives need cleaning roughly every 240 hours of mount time.
They are DLT8000 drives. Even if they were running 24 hours/day, they 
should not be cleaned once per day.

-charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: James K. Wade [mailto:james AT lim DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:22 AM
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning job, more info


Howdy David,

I use Netbackup DataCenter 4.5GA with maintenance pack 4.
I also use the Windows Server Console, although the
server is running on Solaris.

I just found out that the cleaning menu's are not visible
on the Windows Server Console GUI, but they are on
the Solaris.

I have set the frequency now, but I'm having problems trying
to get the volume recognized as a cleaning tape. I added the
cleaning tape earlier into the Library. When I try to Add the new
Volume, I get a Media ID not unique in database.

How can I get around this? Anyway to tell the system to go
ahead and make media id CLN004 a cleaning tape volume?

Thanks...James

-----Original Message-----
From: Spearman, David [mailto:spe08 AT co.henrico.va DOT us] 
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:18 AM
To: James K. Wade
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning job

James,

What OS are you running nbu under? Which version of nbu?

David Spearman
County of Henrico

-----Original Message-----
From: James K. Wade [mailto:james AT lim DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 11:05 AM
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning job

Howdy,

I've been using Netbackup now for about 3 months and everything
is working great, but I'd like to automate the tape cleaning process.

The Library is an Storage Tek L180 with auto clean capability, but
according to Storage Tek, there is no way to increase the frequency
of the cleanings.

Therefore, I'd like to use Netbackup to schedule a tape cleaning once
a day, What's the best way to do this?

Thanks...James