Sorry my previous post will not solve your problem. If you can instead create one large backup from th 5 or 6, then partitioning the changer will work. Create 5 partitions and assign each night's job to that partition. With 5 or 6 jobs a night y...
I ran into the same problem. The solution is simple. Backup Exec writes to each tape based on allocation date. The oldest tape gets written to first. To get the tapes to write in order of slot 1 then slot 2 is to erase the tape in slot 1 and then...
I ran into the same problem, and no one has an acceptable solution. The way Backup Exec handles tapes is by order of the oldest "allocated" tape in a partition goes first. This is a pain, becuase it is hard to determine which tape is the oldest unt...