SUMMARY: Using command line to perform tape drive cleaning

From: Maglinger, Paul (PMAGLINGER@scvl.com)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 09:33:22 EDT

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Thanks to all that replied. It didn't occur to me to simply insert the
cleaning tape and see what happened. As it was, the tape drive did
recognize it as a cleaning tape and ran the routine on it's own. Ahhh...
isn't technology wonderful...

> I'm currently using vdump and mt commands in a script to perform
plain-jane
> backups of our Tru64 5.1a cluster server until a more user friendly
version
> arrives. I'm wanting to run a cleaning tape periodically before I start
> having problems. I would appreciate any feedback.
>
> Paul Maglinger, A+, CA, CET, MCSE
> Systems Administrator
> Shoe Carnival Inc.
> (812)867-4674
> pmaglinger@scvl.com

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