Backup exec 7.3 fails cleaning needed.

[Joey_Servi-Tech]

I have Backup Exec 7.3 running on an NT 4 server and the backup always works like it should except for one thing. The drive requires a cleaning after 24 hours of the heads turning and that is fine except it happens to be that the 24 hours always ends up to be during a backup and that backup always fails. so about every 6 days the backup fails is there a way that we can schedule a cleaning so that it wont interfere with the backup job for that night? Im sure there is something that I could be doing wrong but any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Joe

[Ken_Putnam]

If the system is that old, the tapes may be degrading, and leaving some of the oxide on the heads at every pass

If this is on a loader, you can schedule a cleaning job by defining a cleaning slot

if it is a standalone drive, just run a cleaning tape the day before you expect to get the error