To review the cleaning status of tape drives in NetBackup, run the following command:
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpclean -L
The resulting output will be similar to the example below:
Drive Name Type Mount Time Frequency Last Cleaned Comment
********** **** ********** ********* **************** *******
IBM.000 hcart* 605.9 0 N/A
IBM.001 hcart* 452.7 0 N/A
IBM.002 hcart* 496.5 0 N/A NEEDS CLEANING
IBM.003 hcart* 0.0 0 N/A