Managing Tapes
Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
On a stand-alone tape drive, DPM will use the same tape for daily backups of a specific protection group until there is insufficient space on the tape.
If a backup job requires more space than is available on a single tape, the job will begin, and then DPM will display an alert that a job is waiting for tape when you need to remove the full tape and add a blank tape.
DPM will not append backups from different protection groups on the same tape.