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John_Wan's avatar
John_Wan
Level 4
12 years ago

Clean Drive Issue

During surfing on the forum, I found there are document talking about set up automatic tape cleaning in NetBackup Enterprise Server. It mentions that the default behavior is for NetBackup to automati...
7.1.x and Earlier
Backup and Recovery
NetBackup
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    12 years ago

    I disagree with this :

     

     

    If the drives need cleaning.

         -  Even if you think the drives are clean (by looking at the library’s GUI ) , they must been in a 'clean state' on the Netbackup side.

         -  From the Volmgr\bin\tpclean -L

            If the output contains the message, NEEDS CLEANING you must clean the drive.

     

    If the actual drive is not showing as needing cleaning youshould manually clear the cleaning flag in NBU :

     

    tpclean -M <drive_name>

    Over cleaning the drive is the worst thing you can do.

    Martin

Dyneshia's avatar
Dyneshia
Level 6
12 years ago

I would have to disagree with you Martin somewhat.  Yes there is the option of clearing the flag with the -M but you would have to be 100% that the drive is indeed clean.  Usually tape alerts tells NBU when a drive needs cleaning.  There could also be an underlying issue.  Maybe a slight reword could be updated. In any case a "NEEDS CLEANING" should be investigated. Thanks for the input.