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Vickie's avatar
Vickie
Level 6
11 years ago

Cleaning media

Hi All,   Please let me know, how to differentiate between a cleaning tape media or backup tape media ? Reason I  am asking is ? I have got an Cleaning tape inserted in the library, but that ...
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  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    11 years ago

    Make sure the density of the cleaning tape is set to one of the cleaning densitys.

    EG. If drives are set to hcart, cleaning media should be hc_cln

    If drives are hcart2, cleaning media should be hc2_cln

    It should also be in the NONE pool as you are aware

    You can change the density like this :

    vmchange -m <media id> -new_mt <density>

    vmchange -m CLNU02 -new_mt hcart2_clean

Nicolai's avatar
Nicolai
Moderator
11 years ago

You need to use barcode with the CLN prefix. Barcodes for data tapes and cleaning tapes are different.