There are many factors that would decide this. One of them woula be the hosting environment. In ours, we have a 3584 library with lto Gen 1 drives and they are cleaned about every TB of data, roughly.
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Thu Apr 20 10:34:03 2006 Subject: LTO2 Tape Cleaning Have an ADIC I2k with 4 fiber LTO2 drives running TSM in a Windows 2000 environment. How often should the tape drives be cleaned? Backup 50-60 GB nighly and that should be close to 80 plus in the near future. Bob Martoncik Lucas County Information Services 419-213-4633 ******************************************** This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee and may contain information that is PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately. Thank you. ********************************************
