Hi Alex,

Alex Welz wrote:

> I am doing backups directly to tape. The tapes are approaching 6% full
> and ADSM switches to the next tape.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix the problem?

I saw this behavior when there was a write error on the tape so the
ADSM server wasn't able to continue on the defective tape and were
forced to fetch the next scratch volume.
Please check for volumes with write errors. If this is the case for your
volume/s, I recommend you replace them.

Greetings, Lothar