My understanding is NDMP is a standard for the transport of data, not the 
format of the data.  I would not expect an NDMP backup from one vendor to work 
on the next vendor.  

As an example: NetApp supports compression and does not decompress for the 
backup.  They next system would have to understand NetApp compression.

Andy Huebner
SME - Storage and Backups GDC - Fort Worth

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> On 05 Sep 2016, at 14:55, Nick Marouf <marouf AT GMAIL DOT COM> wrote:
> 
> Hello ADSM,
> 
> We are currently migrating away from Netapps, (NDMP to tape) to a new 
> store subsystem ( Infinidat)
> 
> My belief is that since NDMP is a common protocol, we should be able 
> to restore those via TSM to volumes on to the Infinidats or any other 
> alternate storage destination.
> 

I think you find that ”computer says nooooo”. I’m guessing that your current 
NDMP dumps are in NetApp format, so you can possibly restore those to every 
NetApp you wish, but nothing else.

> Does anyone have any experience or tips? I feel that I'm only 
> scratching the surface with this topics.
> 
> 
> Thank you
> -Nick
> 
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