>
> I have a weird problem, every so often I get a "Media Critical Event"
> looking for a blank tape in pool "Default".  I have no clients that use
> this pool, so it shouldn't ever need tapes there, any idea?

You may not plan to use "Default", but it's pretty easy to misconfigure
the pools in networker so that it ends up being used.

Every pool you create has one or more attributes of a backup defined
(group, client, saveset, level, ...)

If any defined attribute is not matched exactly, then that pool cannot
hold the backup.  "Default" has none of the attributes defined, so it is
always available as a "fallthrough".

Often these are caused by overdefining the pools.  Many admins define a
pool just with "incr", not realizing the indexes will never be saved
with that level, and will be bumped up to level 9.

Is the Default request correlated in time?  Can you look on the server
and see which client is associated with it (probably has some 'nsrexec'
commands running)?

savegrp -p <group> can also come in handy, because it reports the pool
that would be used for a backup session.

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