Hey all. Hoping I can get some good pointers on how to correctly set things up in regards to cleaning tapes.
My client is running NB 7.5.0.3 on 2008 R2. We have 4 HP LTO4 tape drives in a StorageTek SL500 library. I've inherited this setup from a co-worker who has retired, and, yes, said person did not leave me much if any info about configuration, other than what I have been able to glean so far.
We had replaced the original LTO3 drives in the StorageTek last year with the LTO4s about 9 months ago. However, it did not appear that a cleaning regimen had been set up when the drives were put in. Recently I did get new cleaning tapes, added them to the library, and assigned them to the appropriate volume pool. I reset the drives so that they ran cleaning every 48 hours. The drives are AutoTape compatible
I would like to at least run a cleaning manually but I am getting the "96" error that media is not available.
Is there any other config I need to do in NetBackup to get tapes properly assigned, max cleanings available, etc.? I should note that Oracle has told me that I should work cleanings via NetBackup.