On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:46:49PM -0700, Mike Day wrote:
> What's the determining factor as to which tape is used for a backup?  
> 
> I've always been under the impression that tapes contain data from similar
> retention periods and same expiration dates.  I've been looking at the
> 'Images on Media' reports and have noticed that it varies for retention
> periods (mixed at times) and expiration dates (inconsistent) but definitely
> the same volume pool.

I thought I had a clue but 5.0 is throwing me for a loop.  A recent
vault run listed the images on a single tape that really stunned me.  It
was a mix of images from different volume pools from different media
servers, and some of the images should have already expired.  How it
came up with that beats me...

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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