yes you can share it. and as for backup software I use veritas netbackup.
(but under solaris). It's a good product but could be better, specially in
the schedule area.

Keith Michaels wrote in message
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Can a single fibrechannel HBA be shared between disk and tape?
This is for a Windows 2000 fileserver that has an HBA for SAN disk
but will now run backup and/or HSM to fibrechannel drives that
are also SAN-attached. If the HBA can be shared can it support
simultaneous access to more than one tape drive? Backup/HSM
software is not decided yet, Veritas, Tivoli, or ???