Cleaning Job How ?

[cvankrieken]

Is it correct to state that the Cleani,ng Job only works for AutoLoaders ? I have a single tapedrive server. How do I clean the drive ? Can't I use Veritas Backup Exec at all ?

When I try to run a New cleaning job the Run Now and Schedule... buttons are greyed out.

Thanks.

Chris.

 

[SQLBill]

TO clean the drive you have to have a cleaning tape. I have an autoloader and one of my tapes is identified as a cleaning tape. BE uses that tape to clean my drives. With a single loader, you would have to have a tape that BE would recognize as a cleaning tape and load that when you want the drive cleaned.

<at least that's my understanding based on how my autoloader is working/cleaning>

-SQLBill

 

[IHUDDLES]

that's right -- we use to have a single-tape unit and you just had to periodically put in a cleaning tape...

go to DEVICES tab

right click on drive -- and there was a choice for CLEAN

 

[cvankrieken]

Thanks for the replies, but I do not see any Clean option when I go to Device tab and choose the stand alone drive ??
The version of BackUp exec is 8.50...

Tx

 

[28injection]

You just need to insert the cleaning tape and it should be recognised by the drive and will clean itself, at least thats what happens on our DLT 7000/8000 drives. For single drives there is no option for cleaning in BE, this only applies to autoloaders.

 

[dellboy]

cleaning tapes are usually easily identifiable because they are cream/white. As 28injection states, just chuck it in the drive, it will clean the tape and then automatically eject

Cheers

 

[TekMike]

We have a Sony SCSI DDS drive which has its own cleaning tape which I have put in about 10 times so far in the last half an hour. Do I just need to reset the cleaning statistics for the drive, or should BE pick up the fact that cleaning is happening and do it itself?

 

[SQLBill]

BE only resets the cleaning statistics if you are using an autoloader. If you manually load the cleaning tape (single drive), you have to reset the cleaning statistics.

-SQLBill

 

[DeRez]

load the cleaning tape into the autoloader.

in the devices tab, right click on the slot that has the cleaning tape in it, goto properties,

check off &quot;Cleaning Slot&quot;


now when ever you run a cleaning job, it will automatically load that tape.


hope this helps