Frequency based cleaning in NetBackup

[kmgaines]

Any solutions for Frequency Based cleaning in a shared drive environment ? My goal is to automate drive cleanings via NB 4.5 if possible. Hardware = ADIC Scalar 1000 w/8 LTO drives. Thanks for any help.

 

[comtec17]

What OS are you using?

If *nix you can create a cron job and adding the tpclean command to it.

 

[PGPhantom]

Most hardware manufacturers recommend that you allow the drives to auto clean - i.e. They clean when needed. Especially LTO drives. You will have to check the configuration of the hardware but there should be an option to allow auto clean using a specific slot in the library for a cleaning cartridge.

 

[kmgaines]

Unix is the OS.
This hardware vendor (ADIC) recommends the cleaning been done via the software.

I do appreciate your responses. Thank You.

 

[PGPhantom]

When you set up the drive, in the Veritas NB GUI, you can specify the cleaning frequency and as long as you have a cleaning tape available, the drive will be cleaned after that number of hours - We currently have our DLT's etc set to 50 hours and it works like a charm.

 

[syjl]

Hardware based cleaning is the Veritas supported cleaning method for a SAN so I am trying to use that even though I won't have the SAN for another month. I have a Compaq ESL9326SL robot with SDLT drives which should support tape alerts talking to the media manager. However, I don't see any information on Veritas' site that tells me what I should do to get it to work. Under Devices > Drives all of the drives show tape alert not enabled. Can someone help??

 

[kmgaines]

PGPhantom - Are you sharing drives between host ? Veritas advises frequency based cleaning doesn't work in a shared drive environment. That's the issue I'm trying to get around. Thanks, Kevin

 

[comtec17]

If *nix you can create a cron job and adding the tpclean command to it.

 

[PGPhantom]

No - we are not sharing drives. Too many problems associated with that, at least in my experience. Comtec17 is right though - Just run a cron job to force the cleaning on a regular basis.