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savona's avatar
savona
Level 4
13 years ago

Adding Cleaning Tape to NetBackup 7

I am trying to add a new cleaning tape to our library.  Our old cleaning tape was barcode 0200L3 and it has reached it end of life. I created a bar code rule for the new tape (0400L3) and selected ...
  • mph999's avatar
    13 years ago

    I configure cleaning tapes with CLNxxx

    The cleaning tape must be in the NONE volume pool.  Also check that the number of cleanings remaining is > 0.

    Make sure the density of the cleaning tape is the same as the drive, but the cln version.

    Eg,

    Drive density is hcart2 

    Cleaning tape density must be hcart2_cln (or whatever it is, you'll spot it in the drop down).

    Martin