How to define a weekly cleaning job? 1

[chappy72]

Hello

we have ArcServe 11.1 with a Tandberg Loader.
Manually it's easy to use the cleaning tape.

But I can't find any schedule-options to define and save a job which cleans i.e. every Sunday or so.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks a lot.

Daniel

 

[speshalyst]

Hi,

Use the Job Scheduler Wizard from within ARcserve and run "Ca_devmgr -clean" .

YOu can schedule this job to run as per your requirements..



So it Shall be Written!
So it Shall be Done!!

 

[chappy72]

Thanks a lot!
This works;-)

Daniel

 

[vschumpy]

There is also a doc which describes this:

http://supportconnect.ca.com/sc/redir.jsp?reqPage=search&searchID=TEC380963

It shows erase, but it can be easily adapted to run a clean instead.

 

[rwmastel]

Check with your tape drive hardware vendor. It might be bad to clean a drive every week. Our new Ultirum 2 drives are only to be cleaned when the Clean light is on.

 

[Russell5]

I agree with rwmastel. I can't remember where I read it, but regular cleaning of tape drives is damaging to the drives themselves. Companies that regulary clean their tape drives have more tape drive failures than companies who only clean the drives when the clean light comes on.

I think it has something to do with the way the cleaning occurs. If something is brushing on the readers (I'm not very technically experienced here) over and over, it will eventually wear them down. Cleaning only when there is a buildup helps lower wear and tear.

 

[vschumpy]

It depends entirely on the number of hours use the drives get. So, some operations I know may have the drives working 22 out of 24 hours a day, so a weekly cleaning schedule would not be entirely unusual.