Set drive cleaning on Tape Library

[grigatkis]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to set the 'Perform drive cleaning automatically' tag on a tape library with powershell commands.

As far as I can tell, it's not possible to do it using the Get-VBRTapeLibrary / Set-VBRTapeLibrary commands.

Does anyone have an idea (or the correct command) for me?

Thanks

[david.domask]

Hey @grigatkis,

Sorry, looks like it might be a Feature Request. Even with .NET methods, this value is set as a Read-Only property, so it's not editable there.

Can I ask, is the goal mainly to ensure that it just doesn't get accidentally turned off by someone or why does this value need to be set programmatically?

[grigatkis]

We're trying to automate setup as much as possible and that is one of very few bits of our tape backup 'default config' that I couldn't figure out how to automate setting.

(Also, it's annoyingly easy to forget if you're in a hurry while setting up a Veeam server.)


PS: The other bits being how to change the rescan time on a GFS job and how to set the 'process the most recent restore point' button.

[david.domask]

Got it! Regrettably, looks like there's just not an official way to do it right now.

If you're feeling brave and really have a need to check this frequently, you can flip the bit in the [Tape.Changers] table with Invoke-SQLCMD as part of your setup script; of course, please note this comes with no support and no guarantee that it will work/keep working Veeam Support won't be able to troubleshoot items determined to be related to this, so do this at your own risk with the above understanding.

[matteu]

Hello,

I try to perform the same task today. Is there a method today ?
What is the unofficial cmdlet for it ?

Thanks

[david.domask]

Hi!

At this time I do not see that it's different in v12.1

[matteu]

OK,
So, it's on the table tape.changers the value of auto_cleaning to set to true value right ?
I did test it seems to work but I just want to be sure there is no other place to update.

Thanks

[david.domask]

@matteu correct, that should be the only place that it must be set.

[matteu]

Thanks for your answer