On 07/05/2019 08:37, William Muriithi wrote:
Hello,
I noticed today that the tape hardware - Quantum Superloader 3 - had a warning
that the tape head needs cleaning and that got me surprised. We already have a
cleaner tape on the system and had always assumed this is happening already.
How would one go about doing this? Yes, I know I can kill all the jobs, umount
the current tape and mount the cleaner tape but this looks a bit rough. I am
looking for a way the system can work with bacula so that clean up scheduling
happen automatically. IS it possible also to know if their has been cleaning
in the past from bacula's perspective? Would really appreciate any lead
You don't need to kill any jobs - unless they run 24/7 - wait until
Bacula is idle, load the cleaning tape, then come back in a while and
unload it.
You might be able to configure the autoloader to load the cleaning tape
when necessary, as well.
You could schedule Bacula to load the cleaning tape every so often, but
that's not considered a good idea, only clean the drive when the
blinkenlight comes on :-)
Cheers,
Gary B-)
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