Re: when to clean LTO Ultrium tape drive -- MIDRANGE-L

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The interval between cleanings depends on the dust in your environment and
factors such as a drywall crew working in the room - in which case you may
need an air compressor instead of a cleaning cartridge.

-Nathan

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Our OPS uses a TS3100 tape library and Ultrium 3 cartridges. Not using BRMS
(yet).
Last night save was 30 minutes into save when issued CPF5349 Media error
message, followed by CPP630C *ATTENTION* Media error...
and then CPF6792 tape drive needs to be cleaned. ..followed by CPF4290
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Unfortunately someone had read the InfoCenter statement

"The only time you must clean your Ultrium tape drive is when the tape
drive alerts you to clean it."

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Frzam4%2Frzam4cleantape.htm

So - nightly unattended save is crashed. Verified previous night save had
no "clean tape warnings".

How often should a LTO drive be cleaned? (each night is approx 4 hrs of
tape activity).
I seem to recall in past it was based on #hours in use (like 10)?

Jim
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