spark_creative Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 I have 9 tapes in my library. I let Retrospect run through the tapes in the Library and pick what tape it wants/needs and how it names them. Lately though, when doing a Recycle Backup, it'll start with an erased tape rather than looking for and starting with tape 1. Then the whole thing get's jacked up and I have to restart the backup AFTER I manually erase all the tapes. I've looked through my setup, trashed pref's, rebuilt my backup script but still the problem persists. I used to manually name all my tapes and always ensure tape1 was loaded into the drive. However, now that I let Retrospect do what it wants, I can't seem to shake this issue. Anyone have any words of advice? Jason L. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 Retrospect really doesn't support autoloaders well, even if the tapes are pre-named and barcoded. EMC/Dantz considers it "expected behavior" that Retrospect picks whatever erased tape it wants from the autoloader, with no particular rhyme or reason, because that's what is documented in the manual. I submitted a "feature request" almost a year ago for a future version for Retrospect to respect (prefer) the names of barcoded prenamed erased tapes in autoloaders. You might want to suggest the same. If enough people make the request, it might someday happen. Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spark_creative Posted July 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 Hey Russ, I think I remember having a conversation with you sometime back about this. For now, I guess I'll keep to my manual process. That at least worked (most of the time). JL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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