do your policies name a specific storage unit, or use any available, or choose 
from a group?


BlueChris69 wrote:
> 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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