What kind of robot?

I know with a L700 if you put cleaning tapes in the playground the robot
will clean the drives when the drives signal they need cleaning.

Travis Rosamond
Unix Systems Admin
US LEC of North Carolina
8210 University Exec Dr.
Charlotte, NC 28262

Phone: 704-319-6297
Pager: 888-842-1157

 -----Original Message-----
From:   William Enestvedt [mailto:Will.Enestvedt AT jwu DOT edu] 
Sent:   Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:01 AM
To:     veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject:        RE: [Veritas-bu] TapeAlert cleaning, TLD, and Pools

I asked:
> 
> If I want my DLT robots to clean themselves automatically...do 
> the cleaning tapes need to be in a specific Pool?
>
   I got several answers about frequency-based cleaning vs. on-demand
cleaning, but no mention of the importance of a cleaning tape's Volume Pool.
I have decided that it is not considered during backups.
   I dug out my manuals again, and this time I found an interesting note on
p. 116 of the "NetBackup DataCenter Media Manager System Administrator's
Guide - UNIX" (in the part about changing the attributes for a volume). It
says, at the top of the instructions for changing a volume's Volume Pool, in
between a pair of fat, black lines, "Note: Does not apply to cleaning
tapes."
   Curiously, the Java GUI will let you try to change a cleaning tape's
Volume Pool, which the motif interface doesn't even make it available.
   I'm going to try David Markham's shell script (in his post of 5/15/2002)
to watch for downed drives, and give up on this.
   Thanks to everyone for their help.
-wde
--
Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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