About spanning media with automatic media selection
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 host property 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 property is not specified.
In this case, the backup terminates abnormally and the operation is retried according to the NetBackup Global Attributes host property, .