Hi Wayne,
Hence this is the first job you ran and no other jobs are run before. Thus, there is no recyclable media available in the media set.
When you run the job it will first search for the recyclable media and when it doesn't find that it will use which is available and that is scratch media.
To resolve this problem
Please create partitions on those 7 slots. Means 7 partitions on 7 slots.
Eg: Monday Job will use Monday partition, Tuesday Job will use Tuesday Partition and so on..
And you will have that 8th slot as a spare tape.
You can refer to the following document to create a partition.
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/206843.htm
Hope this will help you.
Please revert in case of any doubts.
Thanks.
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