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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring robots and tape drives
  5. Managing tape drives
  6. Setting the drive cleaning frequency
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Setting the drive cleaning frequency

When you add a drive to NetBackup, you configure the automatic, frequency-based cleaning interval. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand Media and Device Management > Device Monitor to change the cleaning frequency that was configured when you added the drive.

To set the cleaning frequency

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand Media and Device Management > Device Monitor.
  2. If you licensed a disk pool feature, select the Drives tab.
  3. In the Drive Status pane, select a drive.
  4. On the Actions menu, expand Drive Cleaning > Set Cleaning Frequency.
  5. Enter a time (hours) or use the arrow controls to select the number of mount hours between drive cleaning.

    The 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 Details dialog box (Actions > Drive Details).

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