Patent ID: 8787133

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a recording unit configured to perform recording of information by laser irradiation on a recording medium having a plurality of layers serving as recording layers where recording of information is performed by laser irradiation, and a track serving as a continuous recording area is formed in the plurality of layers and recording of data is performed within a track, and also a plurality of tracks are set to one layer according to recording purpose; and a control unit configured to determine a sparing destination by sparing destination selecting processing where recording of information by the recording unit is executed on a recording position on the recording medium specified according to a recording request, and also in the event that sparing processing occurs, as a first priority the next recording address of a track being recorded is selected as a sparing destination, and as a second priority the next recording address of a track overlapped with a track where recording is performed according to the recording request in a layering direction of the layers is selected as a sparing destination, and to cause the recording unit to execute sparing recording.