On Wednesday 24 August 2005 20:34, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Can someone explain to me the use of Use Any Volume?

That directive is obsolete and if I am not mistaken not used anywhere.

The rest is in the manual, or I leave the list to respond.

> What I want is for 
> bacula to use the tape with the lowest ID that is writable. I definite
> writable as any volume that is in a state that will allow it to be
> written to (including a tape that contains data but whose retention time
> has passed). I have 11 daily tapes, and after my full backup, I want
> tape #1 to be used. However, Bacula often wants tape 10 or 11 as they
> did not get used during the last cycle at all. If I want the drive to
> take tape 1, I have to disable the higher numbered tapes.
>
> Is there a way to do what I want without scripting? It's not readily
> apparent.

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Best regards,

Kern

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