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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section VIII. Monitoring and reporting
  4. Monitoring NetBackup activity
  5. About the Drives tab
  6. Cleaning tape drives from the Activity Monitor
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Cleaning tape drives from the Activity Monitor

Drive cleaning functions can also be performed from the Device Monitor.

To clean a tape drive

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, select Activity Monitor. Then, select the Drives tab in the Details pane.
  2. Select the drive that you want to clean.
  3. Select Actions > Drive Cleaning, then select one of the following drive cleaning actions.

    Action

    Description

    Clean Now

    Starts an operator-initiated cleaning of the selected drive, regardless of the cleaning frequency or accumulated mount time. If the drive is a standalone drive, it must contain a cleaning tape for a mount request to be issued. Clean Now resets the mount time to zero, but the cleaning frequency value remains the same.

    Reset Mount Time

    Resets the mount time for the selected drive to zero. Use Reset Mount Time to reset the mount time after doing a manual cleaning of a drive.

    Set Cleaning Frequency

    Sets the number of mount hours between drive cleanings.

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