So your cleaning process is completely manual? You waited to see cleaning lights on the drives and then cleaned them?
That's what I've been doing, but for us, that's only a temporary fix. My motto, automate everything and then put the checks in place to make sure it's running properly. Regards, Brian -----Original Message----- From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 9:25 AM To: Greenberg, Brian; 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning issues: LTO-3/ADIC i2k and NBU 5.1 MP3 Brian My ADIC would not communicate with Netbackup - manual intervention was the only way. I had a rule that NBU recognised the cleaning tape and was able to use TPCLEAN - but it was no big deal. Simon Weaver Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Tel: 02392-708598 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Greenberg, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 March 2006 14:56 To: WEAVER, Simon Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning issues: LTO-3/ADIC i2k and NBU 5.1 MP3 Fair guess but no. Actually, ADIC has nothing to do with it. It's the tape alert that comes from the drive itself. I have hardware/library frequency based cleaning off so that NBU can clean when it gets the request from the drive. Barcode rules also wouldn't have anything to do with it either because they are only for importing media/inventorying media in the library. Regards, Brian -----Original Message----- From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:44 AM To: Greenberg, Brian; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning issues: LTO-3/ADIC i2k and NBU 5.1 MP3 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Greenberg, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 March 2006 16:08 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu