Now, NDMP doesn't do you much good for a locally attached tape drive, as Darren and Svein pointed out. However, provided the software which is installed on this fictional server can talk to the tape in an appropriate way, then all you have to do is pipe "zfs send" into it. Right? What did I miss?
Actually there is a case where NDMP is useful when the tape drive is locally attached. If the data server is an appliance that you can not (either technically or by policy or both) install any backup agents onto. The SS7000 falls into this category. The SS7000 allows for a locally attached tape drive. The backup control software runs on another machine and talks with the local NDMP to move the data from local disk to local tape.
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