Dan,

For stand alone drives I recommend making sure the "ltid"
process is running with the "-nsu" option.  Then, be sure
that after the first backup, all subsequent backups are 
for the same volume-pool and at the same retention level.
If either of those are different, NB will ask for a different
tape.  Hope this helps.


On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Sixbury, Dan wrote:

> 
> I recently noticed that one our backup servers that uses a standalone drive
> is sometimes requesting other tapes.  We have more than enough space on the
> tape in the drive, but it appears that the device managment window will show
> a pending request where the backup requests a previously used tape.
> 
> Is there a bp.conf setting or configuration setting to make sure that a
> stand alone drive does not try to request other tapes to be used for
> backups?  We should be able to fit four backups onto the same tape each
> night.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
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