[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="nobodyinperson"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/736a41cd4988ede057bae805d000f4f5"
 subject="Maybe the new sizebalanced= feature?"
 date="2025-05-21T14:04:50Z"
 content="""
It sounds like *maybe* the new `sizebalanced=tape:1` expression could help here? 🤔 But if I understand correctly, it would try to fill the tapes up equally, which is not what you want. There would need to be something like `sequential=tape:1`, which doesn't want to balance the annexes in terms of size, but just in order. But what order? 🤔 Ordered by descending filled annex size? That would be what you need I think.

[git-annex-preferred-content](https://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex-preferred-content/#:~:text=sizebalanced=groupname)
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