Are the media freezing?  I've got an issue now I'm working on where
backup write 25 - 400GB to an LTO3 tape then error - freezing the tape
and requesting the next one.

-Jonathan 

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Why can't my backups fill up a tape?


do your policies name a specific storage unit, or use any available, or
choose from a group?


BlueChris69 wrote:
> I have noticed that my backups appear to use new tapes even though
there is still quite a lot of room available on the tapes. I have set
the policies to multi-stream and the storage units and schedules to
multi-plex. Also the the retention periods are all the same. I must be
missing something but i can't see what...It does appear to work
throughout a week but for example there are tapes from say last thursday
with a lot of space on them and i expected them to be used for last
night's backups however it seems that NBU has picked out new tapes to
write to.
> 
> So, am i missing the obvious?  [Wink]
> 
> Chris
> 6.0 MP4
> Windows (for my sins!)


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