John Snodgrass said:

>The two ideas I have are: Use different schedules within the class with
>different retention levels for the alternating days.  This should make
>it use different tapes, but they would all be in the same volume pool. 
>My other idea is to create more volume pools and classes.  I'm open to
>suggestions.

I think the easier of the 2 is different pools. You can override the pool to 
use for a schedule within a class. So, you could have 1 class, a schedule for 
each different backup you run, and separate volume pools for each.  With a 
scratch volume pool, and new tapes assigned there, you'll even automatically 
allocate media to the other pools as needed, thus freeing you from manually 
putting tapes into the classes.


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