> Am I being a knucklehead by trying to assign a cleaning tape to an invalid
Volume Pool?

Well... ummm... Yes.

Cleaning tapes are always in the "None" pool.

HP says there's no recoomended cleaning frequency on LTO drives. Just clean
it when the drive asks for it.  The installation manual I found for the
Viper seems to imply this as well.

-M

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Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 3:43 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] vmchange not behaving


Hi everyone,
 
I'm trying to get an LTO cleaning tape setup within our system, and I'm
running into a strange problem.  We're running 4.5GA on Solaris 8 Master and
Media servers with an L700 jukebox.
 
After setting up a cleaning tape using the wizard, I wanted to move the tape
from the None volume pool to the NetBackup volume pool.  The GUI wasn't
doing it for me, so I thought I'd try it using CLI by issuing the following
command from the master server:
 
./vmchange -h crmmdb17 -p 1 -m A00000
 
I went to check the tape to make sure it had switched pools, alas:
 
# ./vmquery -m A00000
============================================================================
====
media ID:              A00000
media type:            1/2" cleaning tape (13)
barcode:               --------
media description:     Cleaning Tape
volume pool:           None (0)
robot type:            TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)
robot number:          0
robot slot:            3
robot control host:    crmmdb17
volume group:          NetBackup
vault name:            ---
vault sent date:       ---
vault return date:     ---
vault slot:            ---
vault session id:      ---
created:               Mon Dec 13 14:59:35 2004
assigned:              ---
last mounted:          ---
first mount:           ---
expiration date:       ---
cleanings left:        0
============================================================================
====
 
I didn't get any complaint from the vmchange command, so I'm not sure what's
going on here.  I tried looking through bptm logs to see if there were any
hints there, but found nothing.  Am I being a knucklehead by trying to
assign a cleaning tape to an invalid Volume Pool?
 
Unrelated question, but one that's bothered me for a while.  How long will
an LTO drive go before it needs to be cleaned?  We're running Seagate Vipers
with over a thousand hours on them without having been cleaned.  None of
them are showing a cleaning light, but I have no idea if that behavior is
normal or not.
 
Thanks for any help!


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