jeremyhache
Programmer
We have two novell servers here at work and one runs Backup Exec at night to back up the network to a Python tape drive. Ever since I've been here (almost a year) the nightly backup would fail perhaps once every 2 or 3 weeks with the error, "There is a cleaning tape in the drive. Please replace tape and retry" (I'm not sure if I worded it exactly, but it's pretty close) When I would get this error I would clean the drive a couple times with a cleaning tape, then it would be fine for another 2-3 weeks. In the past 3 weeks, we're lucky if the server backs up successfully twice a week. And it's always the same error. We've noticed, though, that if you catch the error, then run the backup again, it will back up successfully. Has anyone heard of this "cleaning tape" error before and has anyone had it occur so prevalently? Any help is appreciated, thanks!
