The situation is this.
A robotic library with one Drive. About 8 servers connected using the SSO option.
I have created a number of partitions.
The problem is this.
I have set Server A to run at 20:00 and to overwrite using partition slots (1,2)
I have Set Server B to run at 20:30 and to append to media, overwrite if no appendable media is available using the same partition.
There is only one tape in this partition which is easily enough to fit both servers data on it.
Therefore server A should start first at 20:00 and overwrite the tape. When finished server B should then append to the tape.
What seems to be happening is Server B is somehow starting its backup first, not being able to append to the tape it switches to overwrite. Server A starts it's backup and requests a tape as it's set to only overwrite and cant because the overwrite protection prevents this as Server B has already written to it.
Why are they starting in the wrong order?
The only thing I can think of is that other servers are using this drive up until Server B start time and as soon as the drive is available server B decides to start its backup. Surely server A should still be the first one to run as it's been waiting for longer. This is really beginning to annoy me.
