Excessive tape mounts for backup

[Brazner, Bob]

We recently converted a client to backup direct to tape.  In the client
log, I'm seeing excessive "waiting for mount of offline media" messages.
Normally, I would expect to such a message after a complete tape's worth of
data had been transmitted, but I'm seeing the messages repeatedly come out
after as little as 100MB have been transferred.  TSM server is 4.1 (AIX)
and client is 3.7 (NT).  Storage pool is not collocated.  Tape is 3590E in
3494 ATL.

Bob Brazner
Johnson Controls, Inc.
(414) 524-2570