Hello,
10-20 years ago cleaning tape drives every so many hours was
common practice. Today, it would prematurely age any tape that
was mounted on the drive to be cleaned as well as the tape drive
itself. You should only clean a drive when it tells you that it
Hello, Robert,
> I have a tape labeled CLN001 and I have cleaning tape defined as such but it
> never seems to get used.
> To clean, I stop bacula, mount cleaning tape, it cleans, I unmount & restart.
> Sometimes (I think) I tell the robot to clean.
> Anyways, on Netbackup, it just auto-cleans ev
