>But if I do entire subdirectories like this
>mydir\*.*   I do get the tape mounts.

Good point, Julie.  ADSM is able to simply keep in its database info about
directories which are basic, like Unix directories which do not have ACLs;
and so when you do a restoral which needs to restore directories, you see
them being restored as a first phase, with no tape mounts, because they can
be rebuilt directly from database info (in that an empty directory is
basically an empty file, needing just info about it to recreate it).
The directories of other operating systems, or variants, or those with
supplementary info need to go into ADSM storage pools instead, and so
it's "let's go to the tape".          Richard Sims, BU