NB7601, Solaris master/media svr plus windows 2008r2 media server. The latter has 2 drives for doing ndmp backups and two for non-ndmp and is the one I have a question about. The drives are hp lto4 fibre, in a HP msl robot.
In over three years there has not been at any time a tapealert to clean a drive. I'm struggling to believe this can be real. The drives are heavily used overnight and at weekends yet not a single clean. Tapealert is enabled, there is a cleaning tape (but of course its never been requested), and I've run the robot with auto-clean both off and on ( more out of curiosity : I believe it should be off ). My other media server gets through cleaning tapes regularly though there are 10 drives in my other robot and they are IBM LTO4: the loads are similar but the 10drive robot is a couple of years older.
There are tapealert msgs in the bptm log: process_tapealert / tapealert_and_release / 0x0 0x0, which suggests its all working fine.
Your thoughts and experiences appreciated. It would be nice to be able to trigger a tapealert just to check it does do as its supposed.
TIA,Jim
