About operator-initiated cleaning
A drive cleaning can be initiated regardless of the cleaning frequency or accumulated mount time of the drive. Clean standalone drives or robotic drives if a cleaning tape of the correct media type and residence for the drive was added to NetBackup.
NetBackup reports that a drive needs cleaning if either of the following conditions are true:
The value for the mount time is greater than the cleaning frequency.
The TapeAlert CLEAN_NOW or CLEAN_PERIODIC flag is set.
And either of the following conditions must be true:
The drive is a standalone drive and a cleaning tape is not defined.
The drive is a standalone drive and no cleaning tape has any cleanings that remain.
NetBackup displays NEEDS CLEANING as follows:
The Cleaning comment column of the drive list in the Device monitor in the NetBackup web UI.
The comment field of the output from the tpclean -L command.