NetBackup is much more finicky about tape drive errors and cleaning requests than AMANDA ever was. It actually pays attention to them and suspends the jobs if they happen.
Currently working on finding a solution to this problem - fairly often when changing tapes the cleaning light will come on, suspending the current job. There are some scripts that will check for downed drive states and reset them, or up them as appropriate. I’ll be modifiying one of these to do that. We’ll see if that eases the problem.
Also trying to get automatic tape cleaning going, but that may not be necessary and may be tricky.
Use vmoprcmd to get status of tape drives and set them up, down, etc. Use tpclean to get info on drive cleanings and to initiate a cleaning.
Posted by Rowan Littell at November 14, 2003 08:56 AM