Re: [Networker] Networker hangs completely at times

Well regardless of whether your library can do hardware based cleaning, I 
assumed you turned off the Networker cleaning to let Networker not
come to a halt?   You were able to make it through a weekend?


Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems


On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:54:58 +0200, Oscar Olsson <spam1 AT QBRANCH DOT SE> wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Stan Horwitz wrote:
>
>SH> Check to make sure the settings on your tape library do not conflict 
with
>SH> the settings you have in NetWorker for handling cleaning tapes. I have 
not
>SH> seen the behavior you describe, especially since I am not running 
NetWorker
>SH> 7.3, but with the Sony PetaSite tape library we use and NetWorker  
7.2.1, if
>SH> the tape library has any configuration entries at all to handle 
cleaning
>SH> tapes, it will not allow NetWorker to mount a cleaning tape and 
NetWorker
>SH> reacts by refusing to do anything else with tape mounts until it can 
satisfy
>SH> the cleaning request, which has the non-good effect of hanging just 
about
>SH> everything, but I have never seen nsrwatch or nwadmin fail in that
>SH> situation.
>
>Sorry, but no, that's not the problem. The T950 is completely agnostic
>about cleaning tapes.
>
>//Oscar
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