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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section IV. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring robots and tape drives
  5. Managing tape drives
  6. Set the drive cleaning frequency
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

Set the drive cleaning frequency

When you add a drive to NetBackup, you configure the automatic, frequency-based cleaning interval. From the Device monitor you can change the cleaning frequency that was configured when you added the drive.

To set the cleaning frequency

  1. Open the NetBackup web UI.
  2. On the left, click Storage > Tape storage. Click the Device monitor tab.
  3. Select a drive.
  4. Click Actions > Drive cleaning > Set cleaning frequency.
  5. Enter the number of mount hours between drive cleaning.

    The Set cleaning frequency option is not available for the drives that do not support frequency-based cleaning. This function is not available for shared drives.

    The drive cleaning interval appears in the Drive properties.

  6. Click Save.

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