hi,
maybe something with SET RANDOMIZE ?

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Matthew Large
<Matthew.Large AT barclayswealth DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm doing some client testing and have discovered a strange quirk, if it's 
> not WAD:
>
> Scheduled backup session is in pending 'MediaW' state waiting to acquire a 
> drive from the library manager
> A manually started backup on the same machine, while the scheduled session is 
> still open, from the GUI quickly acquires the drive and immediately starts 
> transferring data.
>
> It seems the manually started backup had no problem getting a drive from the 
> library manager but the scheduled backup seemed to be waiting for nothing - 
> there were plenty of drives available.
>
> Can any one explain this behaviour?
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew
>
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