On 01/12/2011 05:14 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> 2011/1/12 Arunav Mandal<dibun AT hotmail DOT com>:
>> I am using Bacula 5.0.3 and I have five tape named LTO-001 to LTO-005. After
>> LTO-001 is full bacula is selecting up tape in random and not LTO-002.
>>
>> How can I force bacula to go by serially when selecting tapes? I started up
>> all five new tapes marked as Append.
>>
> You really can not force bacula to go in any order without a lot of
> work on your part. I believe bacula chooses tapes in order of mediaid
> when there are several new ones to choose from.
>
Bacula chooses the tape to write from a number of variables (e.g.: last 
time written, volume status, etc.).
Force Bacula to write on a specific volume is irrelevant, since catalog 
contains all association about stored files x volumes.



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