After an end of media (EOM) is reached, automatic media selection depends on whether NetBackup is configured to allow backups to span media, as follows:

• NetBackup spans media if the NetBackup Media host property Allow backups to span media is specified for the server.

  In this case, NetBackup uses another volume to start the next fragment and the resulting backup is composed of fragments on different volumes.

• NetBackup does not span media if the media Allow backups to span media property is not specified.

  In this case, the backup terminates abnormally and the operation is retried according to the NetBackup Global Attributes host property, Schedule backup attempts.