Hey everyone,
I recently configured our T3200 tape library on a new backup server (TSM v6.3) and it seems to be having issues loading tapes in drive 2 (never had the issue using the same library on our old 5.x backup server). When I launch an "audit library" command I see it failing with the following message "ANR8907E CLEAN DRIVE for drive LTO4_DRIVE2 (\\.\Tape1) in library LTO4LIB failed". Now, I used to clean the drives manually and the fact that the cleaning tape has never been checked in on our old backup server confirms that.
Just to be able to let TSM coordinate the cleaning of drive 2 (and get rid off the error), I moved the cleaning tape to an I/O slot, checked it in on the new backup server and ran the CLEAN drive command, which succeeded in cleaning drive 2. Since I prefer for the library to handle the cleaning, I checked the cleaning tape out from TSM .. now with an "audit library" command, TSM bugs me again that drive 2 needs to be cleaned.
My 2 questions:
- I prefer to let the library handle the cleaning of its own drives. Why on earth does TSM tries to clean a drive since a) I'm not asking for it and b) there's no cleaning tape configured ?
- If I have to let TSM handle the cleaning for one or another reason, is there a way to specify to which slot it needs to move the cleaning tape when checking in? There is a dedicated cleaning slot, but TSM moves it to a slot which I need for my data tapes.
Any help is greatly appreciated since I've been banging my head for the last 2h on this frustrating issue :)
Thx!
I recently configured our T3200 tape library on a new backup server (TSM v6.3) and it seems to be having issues loading tapes in drive 2 (never had the issue using the same library on our old 5.x backup server). When I launch an "audit library" command I see it failing with the following message "ANR8907E CLEAN DRIVE for drive LTO4_DRIVE2 (\\.\Tape1) in library LTO4LIB failed". Now, I used to clean the drives manually and the fact that the cleaning tape has never been checked in on our old backup server confirms that.
Just to be able to let TSM coordinate the cleaning of drive 2 (and get rid off the error), I moved the cleaning tape to an I/O slot, checked it in on the new backup server and ran the CLEAN drive command, which succeeded in cleaning drive 2. Since I prefer for the library to handle the cleaning, I checked the cleaning tape out from TSM .. now with an "audit library" command, TSM bugs me again that drive 2 needs to be cleaned.
My 2 questions:
- I prefer to let the library handle the cleaning of its own drives. Why on earth does TSM tries to clean a drive since a) I'm not asking for it and b) there's no cleaning tape configured ?
- If I have to let TSM handle the cleaning for one or another reason, is there a way to specify to which slot it needs to move the cleaning tape when checking in? There is a dedicated cleaning slot, but TSM moves it to a slot which I need for my data tapes.
Any help is greatly appreciated since I've been banging my head for the last 2h on this frustrating issue :)
Thx!