TLReed Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 Howdy, I'm running a Peak 10 cell autoloader with cell 10 defined as a cleaning tape in Retrospect 6.5336 multi-server. The SuperDLT drive in the loader doesn't have a way to signal that it needs cleaning to Retrospect. As a work-around, I've set Retrospect to clean the tape head every 100 hours. When a cleaning interval occurs, I get log entries like the folliwing: 6:17:23 PM: A cleaning operation was requested for "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0". It was used 100 hours since the previous cleaning request. 6:23:38 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:23:38 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:29:02 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:29:02 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:34:33 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:34:33 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:40:07 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:40:07 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:45:38 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:45:38 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:51:09 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:51:09 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:56:40 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. 6:56:40 PM: Drive "SuperDLT DC, ID 3:0" was cleaned. I'm concerned that Retrospect is overdoing it and cleaning the tape head over and over again. Plus, the cleaning tape is supposedly only good for 20 uses. What am I to conclude from the above entries, that the tape head was cleaned once or 14 times in a row? TIA for any help given. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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