> I thought I had read that NDMP clients can now act like true Networker 
> clients, transferring data over the network to the storage node. (Back 
> when I last looked at NDMP, it was a local tape only protocol I believe)

Right.

> Is there still a choice between tar and dump here? Is this in place of 
> Networker's uasm format or something?

It's still up to the NDMP device.  Uasm is networker code that you
install on the client.  For most NDMP devices, you can't install the
networker client code, making it unavailable.  So yes, tar, dump, or
whatever else they use will be the functional equivalent of uasm in
terms of providing a bytestream encoding of the storage.  Then the
networker server just takes what it gets.


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