I have an ATL P6000 and for whatever reason it doesn't use the cleaning
tape at all. I have the correct barcode and Veritas recognizes it but
it never actually uses it. I have autoclean set on the library.
When I try and inject the tape it lists it as in the library but does
not move it out of the CAP slot. I have 3 drives right now with
cleaning lights on and a cleaning tape in the CAP, but no cleaning is
occuring.
~JK
Andrew Prince wrote:
>
> Gregory and Others,
>
> Please forgive my ignorance or outright stupidity... I am a hardware guy,
> not a software guy, reading the list for insights to help customers...
>
> Does your changer read bar code labels? Are you using bar code labels? Are
> the cleaning tapes using bar codes that start with CLN...
>
> DLT drives will know the tape is a cleaning tape when it is inserted into
> the drive, but my understanding is that the software doesn't know it's a
> cleaning tape unless you use "cleaning tape" barcodes (grey and start with
> CLN) and the changer reads the bar codes.
>
> Tape libraries made by ATL will only recognize a cleaning tape if you are
> using cleaning tape labels (I think so anyway. Having worked for ATL less
> than a year I could be wrong).
>
> Also, the only way you can reuse a specific cleaning label on a subsequent
> cleaning tape is to purge some database that Netbackup uses to keep track of
> the cleaning tapes. So I've heard. And no I don't know how to do that...
>
> I hope this helps, and doesn't confuse the issue more...
>
> TTFN
> Andrew Prince
>
> > From: "Zielinski, Gregory J." <Gregory.Zielinski AT Honeywell DOT com>
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:43:29 -0700
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning Media Not Working
> >
> > Having trouble with the cleaning media being recognized. This is on a
> > Monthly cleaning tape, we get the error message
> > "Physical Volume Library Media not found." And when you look
> > on the devices
> > tab you see that it finds a tape in slot 1 but the tape label
> > does not say
> > "Cleaning Media" When the tape is first placed into the
> > changer you can see
> > that the change see that the tape is a cleaning media but the
> > software does
> > not seem to recognize that the tape is a cleaning tape.
> >
> > Any ideas on what to do next, we have redefined the job and
> > tried a new
> > cleaning tape and the problem keeps coming back.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > > Gregory J. Zielinski
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