Well that doesn't bode well for Tivoli's plans for future NDMP
functionality =)

Other then the obvious advantage of sending the data directly to tape vs
across a network (twice since it's nfs mounted), are there any
advantages to using the TDP for NDMP?

I mean if it's an "image" backup essentially, aren't you backing up the
entire thing each time? At least via NFS you'd only grab the files
changed (and thus be able to restore only single files and achieve a
greater degree of granularity). On the other hand with the amount of
storage that fits on an NFS server, simply scanning and backing one up
is terribly time consuming unless you can break it out to multiple
clients somehow.

Gerald Wichmann
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