Support for Stacker/Jukebox/Multiple Drives Situation The backup system currently has little support for gravity feed stackers, and none for jukeboxes. Implementation The gravity stacker support, though primitive, is usable. The basic idea was to add support for a "scavange" mode in all-backups that causes it to search for a free or promised "*" tape in the stacker instead of looking for a free tape in the tape library. The only refinement that I'd like to see is to be able to identify drives as stackers and define things like the time delay for changing tapes and the number of tapes that each drive holds. For jukeboxes (which I'll define here as a random access device, where you can tell it to mount tape XX in drive YY), there's no support at all. It seems to me that we'd need to define different types of drives, and then associate these definitions with specific devices. We'd also need to identify tape carosel, which could be shared by several drives. We need a way to note that tape X is in carosel Y (probably using tape locations?). And finally, we need a generic library for manipulating a jukebox (unload_carousel, load_carousel, load_tape, unload_tape and so on). How would we change all-backups and getback to deal with jukeboxes more effectively? all-backups could select free tapes from among the tapes already loaded in the jukebox. getback could automatically switch to new tapes when doing restores. With eot support all-backups and getback could rollover to new tapes.