It looks like NetBackup has been set up to automatically clean your tape
drives after a period of time (usually 80 hours of mount time). You
should have your cleaning tape in the NONE volume pool for the tape to
be used.

Try the following:

Joebloggs# tpclean -L

This will tell you how long the drive has been mounted, frequency it
will be cleaned at and  the last time your tape drive was cleaned.

Timothy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Gravizi, Thomas
> Sent: 09 January 2002 15:53
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Normal Messages? Cleaning Tapes?
> 
> 
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I was wondering if the below excerpt from the messages file is normal?
> We have been getting the error marked with **** and wanted to see if
> that was a normal occurance.
> 
> Also, as you can see by the first line stating the cleaning of TLD(1)
> drive failed.  I really don't understand that message since we insert
> new cleaning tapes when requested and the Storagetek is set up for
> cleaning.  Anyone know why the below error message occurs?
> 
> Jan 7 03:12:52 thor ltid[218]: Automatic cleaning of TLD(1) 
> drive index
> 0 failed because there is no cleaning tape 
> or the cleaning tape is used up 
> Jan 7 03:13:58 thor tldcd[246]: Processing UNMOUNT, TLD(1) 
> drive 3, slot
> 38, barcode 000454 , vsn 000454 
> Jan 7 03:13:58 thor tldcd[20853]: TLD(1) opening robotic path
> /dev/sg/c4t6l0 
> Jan 7 03:13:59 thor tldcd[20853]: valid = 1, sel = 37, 
> barcode = (000454
> ) 
> Jan 7 03:13:59 thor tldcd[20853]: TLD(1) initiating MOVE_MEDIUM from
> addr 1032 to addr 37 
> Jan 7 03:14:16 thor tldcd[20853]: TLD(1) closing/unlocking 
> robotic path 
> Jan 7 03:14:16 thor tldd[223]: DecodeDismount(): TLD(1) drive 
> 3, Actual
> status: STATUS_SUCCESS 
> Jan 7 04:06:53 thor ltid[218]: LTID - Sent ROBOTIC request, Type=1,
> Param2=0 
> Jan 7 04:06:53 thor tldd[223]: TLD(1) MountTape 000056 on 
> drive 4, from
> slot 21 
> ****Jan 7 04:06:53 thor tldd[28679]: TLD(1) open failed in 
> io_open, I/O
> error 
> Jan 7 04:06:53 thor tldd[28679]: TLD(1) unload==TRUE, but no unload,
> drive 4 (device 1) 
> Jan 7 04:06:53 thor ltid[218]: LTID - Sent ROBOTIC request, Type=1,
> Param2=1 
> Jan 7 04:06:53 thor tldd[223]: TLD(1) MountTape 000201 on 
> drive 3, from
> slot 53 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Thomas Gravizi 
> Senior LAN Administrator 
> STERIS Corporation - Mentor, OH 
> thomas_gravizi AT steris DOT com 
> 440.392.7630 - Tel 
> 440.350.7078 - Fax 
> 
>