As you correctly surmised, it's not possible to do cross-platform
restores, as NDMP just provides the transport methods, but each vendor
is allowed to format the data in any which way they like.

NetApp uses dump, the Celerra can do dump or tar via PAX.


>  should an ndmp backup performed on one platform be able to be restored
>  to another platform?  example: can an ndmp backup done on a netapp be
>  restored to an emc celerra nas device?  or is ndmp just a protocal for
>  backup software to initiate/control backups, and the actual "stream" of
>  data going from a volume to tape is proprietary to each os/vender.  each
>  os/vender could then only restore from their own backups, but they would
>  at least be using ndmp common commands from the backup software.
>
>  does anyone have any success stories on cross platform restores?
>
>  thanks,
>  jerald
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