Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
- NetBackup licensing models and usage reporting
- How capacity licensing works
- Creating and viewing the licensing report
- Reviewing a capacity licensing report
- Reconciling the capacity licensing report results
- Reviewing a traditional licensing report
- Reviewing an NEVC licensing report
- Additional configuration
- About dynamic host name and IP addressing
- About busy file processing on UNIX clients
- About the Shared Storage Option
- DELETE About configuring the Shared Storage Option in NetBackup
- Viewing SSO summary reports
- About the vm.conf configuration file
- Holds Management
- Menu user interfaces on UNIX
- About the tpconfig device configuration utility
- About the NetBackup Disk Configuration Utility
- Reference topics
- Host name rules
- About reading backup images with nbtar or tar32.exe
- Factors that affect backup time
- NetBackup notify scripts
- Media and device management best practices
- About TapeAlert
- About tape drive cleaning
- How NetBackup reserves drives
- About SCSI persistent reserve
- About the SPC-2 SCSI reserve process
- About checking for data loss
- About checking for tape and driver configuration errors
- How NetBackup selects media
- About Tape I/O commands on UNIX
About operator-initiated cleaning
A drive cleaning can be initiated regardless of the cleaning frequency or accumulated mount time of the drive. Clean standalone drives or robotic drives if a cleaning tape of the correct media type and residence for the drive was added to NetBackup.
NetBackup reports that a drive needs cleaning if either of the following conditions are true:
And either of the following conditions must be true:
The drive is a standalone drive and a cleaning tape is not defined.
The drive is a standalone drive and no cleaning tape has any cleanings that remain.
NetBackup displays NEEDS CLEANING as follows:
The Tape Cleaning Comment column of the Drive List in the Devices node of the NetBackup Administration Console.
The comment field of the output from the tpclean -L command.