Netbackup can't clean drives in an ACS robot, the acsls server needs to
take care of it. Reference pg. 316 of the NetBackup 4.5 Media Manager
System Administrator Guide for UNIX:

        For drives in libraries that are under ACS, LMF, RSM, or TLH
        robotic control, the library software controls drive cleaning.
        To manage drive cleaning, use the robot vendor or operating
        system administrative interfaces for these robots.

If the drive doesn't need to be cleaned you're going to do more harm
than good by forcing a cleaning.

George



On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Bobby R Windle wrote:

> I using NBU 4.5 Data Center on Solaris with acsls library.  We are using
> LTO Gen2 drives and I still do not see
> any drives getting cleaned with over 400 hours of use on any particular
> drive. Everyone is telling me they do not need to be cleaned. I'm not
> buying it.  I think something is not configured right.  This is what I'm
> looking at.
>
> If I do a tpconfig -L , the cleaning frequency is not set.  I changed one
> of the NBU options by the following:
> tpconfig -update -drive 0 -cleanfreq 100.  This is suppose to set indexed
> drive 0 to need to be cleaned
> after 100 hours of usage.  When I looked at the drive status again with
> tpclean -L, it now has a comment at
> the end of the line that says NEED_CLEANING which it should.  The cleaning
> frequency field still says 0 tho...
> So when will it get cleaned again?  At next backup job execution?  Is this
> the right way to have drive cleanings
> done.  Some folks say let ACSLS do it.  I have it set there too, but as I
> said it still has not cleaned a drive.
>
>
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