Media management best practices
The following items are NetBackup media management best practices:
Use the robot inventory update operation for media management.
Use a scratch pool for unassigned media.
Configure cleaning cartridges for tape drives and use TapeAlert for automatic drive cleaning if the drives support automatic cleaning.
Replace old media according to the life-span recommendations of the manufacturer. Replace old cleaning media also.
Use the robotic libraries that have a bar code reader and use only the bar code labels that the robot vendor recommends.
Use bar code rules for media type assignment when you inventory multimedia libraries. Use bar code naming conventions to differentiate between data and cleaning tapes and different physical media types. A common convention is a prefix that identifies the type of media.
Before performing inject or eject commands, ensure that the media access port is empty. Although NetBackup can handle a port that is not empty, some libraries can have problems.