Re: needed tapes

thanks all for your replies and explanations.

It wasn't my intention to let somebody else do my work, no :-)

I see the complexity somehow, and wonder if I can at least come up with 
something that *helps* choosing the next 8 tapes each week.

Currently mostly I select the tapes, I am the external admin of that 
server, and it seems the customer would prefer if some internal tape 
operator can do that ... (that guy is very likely cheaper for them).

The customer has to write and fulfill a specific SOP document for 
backups, and I will see if I can negotiate about that part.

So it is standard procedure for most of the Bacula installations that 
somebody "manually" selects the tapes regularly? Sure, with big 
libraries it's not necessary, I understand.

Thanks, greetings, Stefan

ps: I still haven't found the time to look at that script using bconsole 
... I will do that asap and see what I can achieve.