I had similar problems recently and found it to be the backup of the client
registry.   ADSM does not backup the registry to the default managment
class.  It scans for the management class with the longest retention,  in my
server, that is the direct to tape management class.   There is a client
option for directing the registry to a management class ( I think DIRMC) but
I could not get it to work, so as a temp workaround was to drop the
retention in my direct to tape management class to 1 day less than my
default management class.   That eliminated the tape mount for all of my
client backups.   Hope this works for you.

> ----------
> From:         Michelle Duncan[SMTP:micki AT SYNOPSYS DOT COM]
> Sent:         Wednesday, June 10, 1998 10:46 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      ANS4312E
>
> Quick newbie question...
>
> I'm running ADSM v2 on AIX v4.  Just within the last week I've gotten
> these messages on practically all the nodes associated with this
> machine:
>
> ANS4118I Waiting for mount of offline media.
> ANS4312E Server media mount not possible
>
> Even though the policy is set to go directly to a diskpool instead
> of a tape pool.  However - the activity log shows that its looking
> for the mount of a tape.
>
> Color me confused...
>
>         -Michelle Duncan
>          micki AT synopsys DOT com
>