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Can you tell when a cleaning tape was last used on a DDS?

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Hi

Been trying to figure out how to monitor whether users are running cleaning tapes on DDS drives at recommended intervals. Is there any process that I may get this info from. I was thinking a tape xstatus and saying that the tape had been run if all numbers read 0. I was then thinking of writing it into Big Brother as an ext script. All errors would then rise until the cleaning tape was used whereby they should drop to 0 again. This would be somewhat painful to do however!

Anyone got any nicer ways? Any pitfuls in my current implementation?

phil_m
 
System reboots clear out tape xstatus; unfortunately cleaning tapes don't!
 
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