I have been trying to find something that would support the suspicion
that is *may* not work. I can't. With the advanced features of the L700
I can't imagine that they wouldn't think of this as a potential 'gotcha'.
Incidentally, does auto-clean only clean when the drive *really* needs it?
I'm not a fan of random (DLT) cleaning simply because of the technical
specifics to how cleaning is done.
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David A. Chapa
Consulting Manager
DataStaff, Inc.
847 413 1144
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Lee Kolinsky wrote:
> Andrey,
>
> All I am going to say is this ...
> I have (2 x STK-9710's) + (2 x STK-9740's) + (2 x STK-L700's)
> In all cases I let the robot clean the drives as needed.
> I am runing NB 3.2 Patch 443 and starting to use SSO.
> I have yet to run into a problem with tape mounts colliding with
> drive cleanings that I am aware of.
>
>
>
> Andrey Shinkarev wrote:
> >
> > I've got some responses from different people which allow me to say
> > Auto Clean feature on STK L700 doesn't work with NetBackup 3.2
> > with SSO.
> > According to Veritas Tech Support:
> >
> > > The robot has to be smart enough to not load a real tape into a drive that
> > > already has a cleaning tape, if it is going to support this option.
> > > NetBackup only makes requests of the robot, the robot has to keep track of
> > > what it's doing... but, you already know this.
> >
> > Does anyone know how Tape Alert feature works on STK L700 libraries?
> > Does it work or not?
> >
> > Another question:
> > Cleaning on time basis is not recomended for multihosted tape drives.
> > is it becouse of inability of NetBackup to count of time usage on
> > different systems?
> >
> > Thanks again for everyone who responded for me.
> > Andrew
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:55:44AM -0600, Andrey Shinkarev wrote:
> >
> > > We are using Auto Clean Feature in our STK L700 with DLT7000 tape drives.
> > > It works fine but sometimes we are getting tape drives downed for
> > > the following reason
> > >
> > > Nov 19 17:02:28 uback-ap9-1 tldcd[16650]: TLD(6) key = 0x5, asc = 0x3a,
> > > ascq = 0
> > > x0, MEDIUM NOT PRESENT
> > > Nov 19 17:02:28 uback-ap9-1 tldcd[16650]: TLD(6) Move_medium error: CHECK
> > > CONDIT
> > > ION
> > > Nov 19 17:02:28 uback-ap9-1 tldcd[16650]: TLD(6) could not move barcoded
> > > tape CL
> > > N499 from drive 6 to outport
> > > Nov 19 17:02:28 uback-ap9-1 tldd[17882]: TLD(6) drive 6 (device 5) is
> > > being DOWN
> > > ED, status: Robotic dismount failure
> > > Nov 19 17:02:28 uback-ap9-1 tldd[17882]: Check integrity of the drive,
> > > drive pat
> > > h, and media
> > >
> > > We are running 3.2 with the patch 443.
> > >
> > > If anyone had this problem before?
> > >
> > >
> > > The problem is NetBackup doesn't know about the cleaing tape and has 0
> > > cleaning interval for the tape drive. If I try to clean the tape drive
> > > I am getting "No cleaning tape defined in the device's robot"
> > > And the cleaning tape itself doesn't exist in NetBackup database.
> > > I couldn't find any cleaning request in log files, for an old libraries
> > > without the Auto Clean feature I saw them a lot.
> > > We have 3 libraries and having the problem on all of them.
> > > Fast Load feature doesn't solve the problem. We have had it
> > > enabled and disabled but still had this problem.
> > >
> > > The Auto Clean Feature works but it looks like NetBackup and
> > > the library fight for the tape drive and NetBackup doens't win.
> > > I think the cleaning operation should be blocked and NetBackup
> > > must wait until it's done.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > --
> > > ----
> > > Andrew Shinkarev
> > > Network Systems Specialist
> > > Abbott Laboratories
> > > (847) 9387559
> > > shinkara AT pprd.abbott DOT com
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> > Andrew Shinkarev
> > Network Systems Specialist
> > Abbott Laboratories
> > (847) 9387559
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