>>>>> On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:07:46 -0700, Michael Edwards said:
> 
> Hi All,
> A quick question (hopefully) regarding bacula's choice of tapes within a 
> given pool.  I began using bacula recently and found that some of the 
> time, bacula will begin writing to a tape/volume within a given pool, 
> before the previous (still appendable) tape is full.  This isn't really 
> an issue and backups are running fine, however, I was just wondering if 
> it is common behavior for bacula to appear to randomly use any 
> appendable tape from a pool, rather than filling one and then moving on 
> to the next appendable tape.

It can certainly make use of more than one tape in the Append state, e.g. it
will use a mounted tape.

__Martin

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