I just finished setting up different jobs to use different Partitions for
each day. If right click on the name of the changer, you have an option
to create partitions. Then under each job, you can tell it to use a specific
partition when the job runs. Granted, this means that you have a job for
each slot.

"Jeff Lynch" wrote:
>
>I have a new Overland Data 19-slot AIT-2 Autoloader and would like to configure
>BE 8.5 for a typical "Grandfather" backup strategy. How do I configure the
>differential "job" (Mon - Thur) to use the media in slot 1 for Monday's
backup,
>slot 2 for Tuesday's backup, etc? Do I need a different job for each day
>of the week or can BE 8.5 be configured to use a different slot for each
>day's media?

You could try placing scatch or empty media in a media set assigned to Differential
backups. Then run Monday's job, etc. Of course this assumes that the media
are in the same order as the physical slots, i.e. oldest in Slot 1, then
next oldest.

"Matt" wrote:
>
>I just finished setting up different jobs to use different Partitions for
>each day. If right click on the name of the changer, you have an option
>to create partitions. Then under each job, you can tell it to use a specific
>partition when the job runs. Granted, this means that you have a job for
>each slot.
>
>"Jeff Lynch" wrote:
>>
>>I have a new Overland Data 19-slot AIT-2 Autoloader and would like to configure
>>BE 8.5 for a typical "Grandfather" backup strategy. How do I configure
the
>>differential "job" (Mon - Thur) to use the media in slot 1 for Monday's
>backup,
>>slot 2 for Tuesday's backup, etc? Do I need a different job for each day
>>of the week or can BE 8.5 be configured to use a different slot for each
>>day's media?
>