Hi all, I've inherited a bacula system that has a pool of 50 tapes for full backups. When I run a backup, the tapes it wants to use seem to be ordered a bit strangely. It'll use the first 8 tapes MS2022L6-MS2030L6 and then request tapes with the range MS2048L6-MS2055L6, then back to MS2031L6-MS2035L6. Since that was probably the order of when they were used and Bacula tries to use the oldest, last written tapes, I can see why the system acts in this manner. However, it is a huge hassle when inserting the correct ranges of tapes into the autoloader. It will pause full backups for the mounting of the oldest tape in the pool even when there are purged/recycle tapes available for it to use which would be more conveniently ordered. Preferably, I would like to insert tapes MS2022L6-MS2046L6 consecutively and have Bacula use the tapes in that order. But since that isn't the way they were used the first time, I'm left with continuing this strange pattern of putting tapes out of order and using tapes from different cases. I've tried purging/recycling the tapes but it still abides by the the Last Written parameter and will not use the purged tapes unless it is actually the oldest.
Is there any way I can re-organize my tapes usage order? Thanks, Ben Wong
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