We are doing what you think.!!
For several reasons on our Stk library with dlt7000 the cleaning
tapes
got "fired" going only 5 times after drives that didn't really need
cleaning .
So, for cleaning tapes (too old for clearing the "drive cleaning light"),
we use them in the "auto clean way" because as you know
the system just mounts the cleaning tape as skeduled without checking
"uses" !!
Certainly I don't say that its better than nothing but it's hard to use
a cleaning tape only max =5-20 times in a normal envirronment!
but
I am not running "nsrjb -U 20 -j xxxxxx -S 1" every 3 days!!
I get the cleaning out at end of Uses (20X3 = every 60 days) because I
have other
barely used tapes; otherwise I would have run "nsrjb -U 20000 -j
xxxxxx -S 1!
saluti
tosti
because
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Sinclair" <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
To: <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Networker] More confusion over cleaning
> Are you running the command: nsrjb -U 20 -j xxxxxx -S 1
> every three days? How can you keep resetting the uses on the same
> cleaner tape? They only have a limited number of uses. They're not like
> regular data tapes that can be reused ad infinitum. Maybe I'm
> misunderstanding what you said, but it sounds like you're resetting the
> uses over and over again on the same cleaner tape. If so, didn't realize
> that was possible.
>
> George
>
> TOSTI wrote:
> >
> > version (6.1.3)
> > We have only few cleaning tapes and where i am they buy everything,
> > "but not cleaning tapes for the library"
> > so what we did was
> > -- set "auto clean" =yes and "cleaning interval" =3 days nothing
else,
> > and keep along giving the - nsrjb -U 20 -j xxxxxx -S 1
> > cycleing our few cleaning tapes;
> > Because like (DAVE) said if you "listen" to the drive cleaning light
> > you will dry out all your cleaning tapes going after drives that don't
> > really need
> > cleaning!!
> > saluti
> > tosti
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "George Sinclair" <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
> > To: <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:32 PM
> > Subject: [Networker] More confusion over cleaning
> >
> > > Okay, we're running 6.1.1, and we don't have 'auto clean' enabled on
> > > NetWorker. I checked the device configuation, and I see the following
3
> > > fields:
> > >
> > > Cleaning required (Yes/No; currently set to No)
> > > Cleaning interval (empty field)
> > > Date last cleaned (empty field)
> > >
> > > In checking the help window, I have several questions.
> > >
> > > 1. Can we assume that since we show a "Cleaning interval" field that
our
> > > NetWorker version does not inquire from the library if a drive needs
to
> > > be cleaned and instead just uses it's own schedule? In other words, if
> > > we had a later release, we would not see this field? Anyone?
> > >
> > > 2. The help window says that if the "Cleaning interval" field is blank
> > > then there is no cleaning schedule for the device. So if you leave it
> > > blank does that mean that NetWorker will never clean it or does it
> > > instead mean that NetWorker will ask the library and not use it's own
> > > schedule?
> > >
> > > 3. I assume that you would NOT set "Cleaning required" to 'Yes' unless
> > > you wanted to force a clean at the next load/unload, but if you have
it
> > > set to 'No' then auto-cleaning will still work?
> > >
> > > 4. Maybe none of this works unless you have 'auto clean' enabled but
> > > maybe enabling that forces NetWorker to use it's own schedule to do
it?
> > >
> > > For those of you using later versions of NetWorker wherein NetWorker
> > > apparently asks the library/device if it needs to be cleaned before
> > > loading a tape, do you have the 'auto clean' field under jukeboxes
> > > and/or the other 3 fields under devices?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > George
> > >
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