Nearly every tape drive technology requires the use of a cleaning tape, either as part of a scheduled drive maintenance program or as part of an error recovery strategy. However, the advanced design of HP StoreEver LTO tape drives minimizes the need for a cleaning tape. HP LTO Ultrium Universal Cleaning Cartridges are suitable for cleaning operations for all HP and non-HP tape devices.
Many read and write errors are temporary and can be corrected by cleaning the drive or re-tensioning the tape. This ensures long-term reliability and data integrity and should be built into your backup schedule, according to manufacturer’s recommendations, and also carried out whenever the drive requests it.
