Thanks to all that replied. It didn't occur to me to simply insert the
cleaning tape and see what happened. As it was, the tape drive did
recognize it as a cleaning tape and ran the routine on it's own. Ahhh...
isn't technology wonderful...
> I'm currently using vdump and mt commands in a script to perform
plain-jane
> backups of our Tru64 5.1a cluster server until a more user friendly
version
> arrives. I'm wanting to run a cleaning tape periodically before I start
> having problems. I would appreciate any feedback.
>
> Paul Maglinger, A+, CA, CET, MCSE
> Systems Administrator
> Shoe Carnival Inc.
> (812)867-4674
> pmaglinger_at_scvl.com
Received on Thu Aug 08 2002 - 13:34:11 NZST