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.
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.
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.
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??
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
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.
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