Yes.  I've done both, and my experience indicates it's actually more
reliable to have a Unix box to do the robot control.



> From veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu  Tue Aug 29 11:19:21 2000
> 
> Is it possible for a Network Appliance file server to be attached to a tape 
> library that is shared with a Unix media/slave server where the slave server 
> has control of the robotics and still use NDMP for backups of the NetApp 
> server. I my experience with NDMP to date, the NDMP host had full control and 
> the only attachment to the tape library.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott Tinsley
> The Allied Group
> --------------C0FBFF4230D6216625CD0EED
> Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii;
>  name="tinsley.vcf"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Description: Card for Scott Tinsley
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
>  filename="tinsley.vcf"
> 
> begin:vcard 
> n:Tinsley;Scott
> tel;pager:800-758-8888 Pin Number 1158965
> tel;cell:804-304-1122
> tel;fax:804-204-1733
> tel;home:804-530-8662
> tel;work:804-204-1750  X103
> x-mozilla-html:FALSE
> url:www.thealliedgroup.com
> org:The Allied Group;SNS
> version:2.1
> email;internet:tinsley AT theallidegroup DOT com
> title:Senior System Engineer
> adr;quoted-printable:;;2104 West Laburnum Ave.=0D=0ASuite 
> 100;Richmond;VA;23227;USA
> x-mozilla-cpt:;10544
> fn:Scott Tinsley
> end:vcard
> 
> --------------C0FBFF4230D6216625CD0EED--
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Veritas-bu maillist  -  Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
> 


-- 
Mike Wei       Collective Technologies, a Pencom Company
Email: wei AT colltech DOT com