Update: I talked to Dell support. On the LTO6 half-height drives, they specify that cleaning will required after every 40-50 hours of drive usage. This is substantially more often than LTO3 or LTO4 drives required. Newer firmware revisions for the drive are gradually getting more relaxed about needing cleaning. And apparently the new generation of LTO6 tapes (like the new HP BaFe media) should drastically reduce the cleaning requirements over the legacy MP (metal-particle) tapes.
Naturally, Dell insists that my use of non-Dell-branded tapes is part of the problem ;-). Even though Dell tapes are actually OEM'd FujiFilm tapes in the first place... Based on running full backups, we're hitting 40 to 50 hours of on-head tape usage every two weeks or so. So apparently this level of cleaning is actually normal for this drive. (Dell TL1000, which is actually an IBM TS2600 (type 3572-TL) with an IBM ULT3580-HH6 drive) I still wish there was a way to tell Bareos to automatically unload the tape after X hours of inactivity, so that the library auto-cleaning could kick in, instead of me having to do it manually. There's a TapeAlert plugin, could that be extended to do auto-eject the tape if the drive requires cleaning after a backup job runs? Except that despite having that plugin enabled, I don't see anything in the Bareos logs - it's the library emailing me to request cleaning... [image: Avant logo] *Adam Thompson* Senior Systems Administrator *voice:* 204.789.9596 x24 | *email:* athomp...@avant.ca | *web:* avant.ca On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:56 AM, Marco van Wieringen < marco.van.wierin...@bareos.com> wrote: > On 01/ 3/16 08:37 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm noticing that my library needs cleaning fairly regularly, and isn't > getting cleaned automatically like I expect. > > > > I'm currently running > > * bareos-15.4.0.git.1450454374.ccd5008-1181.1.el6.x86_64. > > * Dell PowerVault TL1000 - LTO6 (an OEM'd IBM TS2900 type 3572-HH6) > > > > Honestly if your drive needs cleaning regularly its either dying, you use > very > bad tapes or it collecting dust. Normally you need cleaning very few times > anything > else shows problems with the hardware. I cleaned my LTO4 drive maybe 2 or > 3 times > the last 3 years. > > So if you have support on the hardware I would run some diagnostic software > and get the drive swapped for a proper working one. > > -- > Marco van Wieringen marco.van.wierin...@bareos.com > Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49-221-63069389 > http://www.bareos.com > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 > Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH > Geschäftsführer: Stephan Dühr, M. Außendorf, J. Steffens, > P. Storz, M. v. Wieringen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "bareos-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bareos-users/6OA6NZQQKuk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to bareos-users@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bareos-users@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
