Most likely you left one of the newly labelled tapes in the drive.  If
Bacula finds an appendable tape in a drive, it will use that tape in
preference to unmounted tapes.

On 08/30/2015 07:17 AM, philhu wrote:
> I added 5 tapes to my 24 slot library.  I noticed bacula did not start using the previous tape in append mode that it had been using.  It skipped to the next.
>
> Then after I labelled the new tapes (label barcodes slots=17-22), the next job then skipped a blank tape and went to another new tape.  I have a screenshot showing my volumes in the changed.
>
> Why did it not resume backups on the last used and not full tape,  then why did it skip a new tape for the next job?
>
> All tapes are in same pool, and all jobs use same pool.
>
> Here is the last tapes in the changer:
> |      37 | PH0036L4   | Append    |       1 |   271,029,104,640 |      283 |   63,072,000 |       0 |   15 |
> |      38 | PH0037L4   | Append    |       1 |            64,512      |        0 |   63,072,000 |       0 |   16 |     1 |
> |      39 | PH0038L4   | Append    |       1 |     5,490,809,856  |        6 |   63,072,000 |       0 |   17 |
> |      40 | PH0039L4   | Append    |       1 |            64,512      |        0 |   63,072,000 |       0 |    0 |
> |      41 | PH0040L4   | Append    |       1 |    13,999,104,000 |       14 |   63,072,000 |       0 |    0 |
> |      42 | PH0041L4   | Append    |       1 |            64,512     |        0 |   63,072,000 |       0 |   18 |
> |      43 | PH0042L4   | Append    |       1 |            64,512     |        0 |   63,072,000 |       0 |   19 |
> |      44 | PH0043L4   | Append    |       1 |            64,512     |        0 |   63,072,000 |       0 |   20 |
> |      45 | PH0044L4   | Append    |       1 |            64,512     |        0 |   63,072,000 |       0 |   21 |
> |      46 | PH0045L4   | Append    |       1 |            64,512     |        0 |   63,072,000 |       0 |   22 |
> undefined
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