In regard to: [Networker] Drive cleaning, Davina Treiber said (at 6:07am on...:

>I'd like to revisit the age old discussion about the best way to do drive
>cleaning.

Davina-

You should change the subject on this message to

        NetWorker-initated drive cleaning vs. jukebox-initiated drive cleaning
        (the definitive guide)

and resend it to the list.  That way, every person that searches the
archives in the future will likely find this, and they won't need to
ask any additional questions.  :-)

I'm in 100% agreement with everything you've said, and our site has tried
it both ways (our first jukebox, a DEC TL8XX didn't have drive-controlled
cleaning or a dedicated slot for the tape) and after trying it both
ways I'm strongly in favor of library-controlled cleaning.

One thing that you could touch on in your list of comments is that jukebox
initiated cleaning often requires that you have special barcodes for your
cleaning tapes, often ones that begin with CLN.  Based on my recollection
of NetWorker-initiated cleaning, it doesn't care what the barcodes are
on the tapes, it just finds one from the slot range you've set aside for
cleaning tapes.

Tim
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