Georg Altmann wrote (2006/12/06): > Actually cleaning is even harmful to the drive's heads. You should _never_ > clean an LTO drive unless it requests a cleaning tape, as indicated by > front LED, Tape Alert or whatever.
Hello, just small additions: HP LTO3 (and I believe that other recent tape drives too) has built-in mechanism against exessive tape cleaning. Even if cleaning tape is inserted by hand into a drive, it may not be used. It is operated just by a tape drive, so there is guaranteed, that the drive heads are not excessive abraded, even if cleaning tape is improperly used. If all tape cleaning conditions are not met (cleaing LED is turned on, Clean Now in Tape Alert page is set, last cleaning was performed 2 weeks or more ago), just internal non-abrasive brush is activated. > We use a LTO1 drive and only backup about 100 GB a week. The drive is in > service for over one year now and never needed to be cleaned so far. Roughly 100 running hours, it can be 4 days in other installations. -- Rudolf Cejka <cejkar at fit.vutbr.cz> http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~cejkar Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
