Hi Bradley,
I'll tell you what one of our customers is doing:
define a storagepool with only one tape.
This tape is a cleaning tape.
Now start a schedule periodicly and backup a file to that
storagepool. ADSM will mount that tape try to read (meanwhile
cleaning) and break with an errormessage. Ignore that errormessage
and resume normal operation. Cleaning is done.

I've never tried it, but customer told me it works fine.

Regards, Manfred

Bradley King wrote:
>
> Anyone have a good way of mounting the cleaning tape on the
> Exabyte-210?  The robot says its time to clean a drive, but
> the manual command does not work becase ADSM controls the robot.
> I know that I can shut the power off on the Exabyte and do the
> cleaning before ADSM grabs it for the next mount, but that seems
> a bit ugly. Does anyone have a more "elegant" method or does ADSM
> do it automatically if I wait a while?
>
> Thanks for suggestions.
>
> B. King
>
> Bradley King                            Tel: 331.47.46.66.83
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