Hi Brian
I had an LTO1 ADIC, and to be very truthful, I ended up doing it manually,
because the tape request simply did not interact with Netbackup 3.4

Not only that, the ADIC constantly wanted the drive to be cleaned almost
every other day. And I found this hard to believe, because if you do too
many cleans you would end up damaging the drive heads I guess!

The things to check would be the Barcode Rules, that its identified as a
cleaning tape, but as I said I never got it to automatically work. I checked
the amount of times the drives had been used and where required cleaned
them!

Simon Weaver 
Technical Support 
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium 
Tel: 02392-708598 

Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net 



-----Original Message-----
From: Greenberg, Brian [mailto:Brian.Greenberg AT citadelgroup DOT com] 
Sent: 01 March 2006 16:08
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning issues: LTO-3/ADIC i2k and NBU 5.1 MP3


I have a ADIC i2k with LTO-3 (IBM) drives in it and NBU 5.1 MP3 running on
RH Linux AS3 but I seem to be having some issues with drive cleaning.


Some of the drives have the red 'C' indicator on the front of the drive with
the amber light flashing signaling that the drive needs to be cleaned.
However, the tapealert notification doesn't seem to be getting to NBU to do
the clean on the drive.  

Yes, there are cleaning tapes in the library, in the correct partition and
are labeled properly.  When I issue a tpclean command or do it from the GUI
it works fine.  The problem is I have to do all that manually.  

The tape alert doesn't seem to be getting to NBU.  I checked the messages
file but that doesn't seem to be giving me enough info.

Anyone have a suggestion for me on where to look next?

Brian Greenberg
bjgreenberg AT gmail DOT com

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