> You can't take ndmp backups between different systems?  Any idea why?

Because NDMP doesn't specify the output format, and different devices
have different needs/implementations.

> AFAIC, and I haven't tested this in any way, an ndmp backup is a
> standard way of backing up files.

An NDMP backup is a standard way of *requesting* a device to do a backup
or restore (and to some extent where the data goes and how it is
tracked).  The choice of how the data is encoded is left to the device.

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