Unable to identify Cleaning Tape in Netbackup 7.6
- 11 years ago
Your original question was about finding your cleaning tape...
If you view you media on the admin console and right click the header ro you can choose Columns - Layout
From the list it brings up select "Media Status" and click the "show" icon so that it then appears on your view
There is every chance that if it tried to use the cleaning tape as a normal tape it would have frozen it - so its status would be frozen
There is also the possibility that in your library setup (connect to the library via its own web interface) it is configured to do its won cleaning and has a slot dedicated to do that
If that is the case then it will actually hide that slot and tape from NetBackup - so only the library itself will see it
The cleaning tape is easy to deal with if not - make a note of all of the media IDs in the library and then physically go and remove it from the library - then update the inventory
The tape shown as going from the library to standa alone is your cleaning tape - you should then delete that media ID from NetBackup - put a barcode label on the cleaning tape (preferably CLN***), add a barcode rule that says a tape starting in CLN is a 1/2 inch cleaning tape 2 - add it back and update the inventory
You should then be sorted