09-11-2013 08:57 AM
Hi all,
I am having constant problems with "bad/expired" cleaning tapes which keep causing my jobs to fail.
We get through a cleaning tape once every couple of months which seems crazy to me.
I want to reuse 'expired' tapes because I dont believe they truly are unusable. Is there anyway I can totally remove the tapes and add them back to the new system as if they were a new tape?
09-11-2013 09:23 AM
09-11-2013 10:32 AM
This is an often encountered issue please see http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH193827 and the workaround.
09-12-2013 01:42 AM
Yes I include the cleaning tapes when I do an inventory (every day). Guess it has used up the life rather quickly.
I have tried to delete the tapes and use a new barcode, but I still get the same message. I guess it gets this information from cleaning tape media ID.
Oh well, guess I will have to buy a couple of new cleaning tapes and make it more of a manual process in future.
09-12-2013 06:08 AM
09-12-2013 06:33 AM
Can you schedlue a scan in the same way you can an inventory?
09-12-2013 03:15 PM
Change the slot properties of the slot that holds the cleaning tape to indicate that it is a cleaning slot. That will prevent an inventory job from using up your cleaning tapes.
09-12-2013 09:20 PM
I am not sure because I do not have a tape library attached to my test BE 2012. Right-click on your library, select scan and see whether you can schedule it.
You can definitely use the Windows scheduler to run the BEMCLI cmdlet, Submit-BEScanJob at a certain fixed time.
There is no need to scan your library on a periodic basis. You only need to do a scan after you have remove the magazines and change tapes. A scan is very fast, a couple of minutes at the most. This is because only the barcode labels are read. Unlike an inventory which actually read the tape in the tape drive which for a cleaning tape is equivalent to cleaning the tape head.
09-13-2013 01:31 AM
Thanks Larry, I will do that.