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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