That brings up a related question though -- since ndmp allows SCSI commands to be sent directly to the device, that would theoretically allow one to control the robotics over the network via NDMP.

Do any of the NDMP-based packages support this? (Legato, Budtool, whatever)

BudTool (running, obviously, on a Unix box) does indeed tell our Breece Hill tape library (attached to the NetApp) to load and unload specific tapes, and it talks to the library through the NetApp via NDMP. So I guess this must be how it's doing it.

Cheers,

Jay Sekora jay@ccs.neu.edu Unix Systems Administrator Northeastern University College of Computer Science