Hi,
Thanks for the response. However, I was referencing the ONTAP 9 Data Protection Tape Backup and Recovery Guide. In the section title "Understanding SMTape Engine for Flexvol Volumes" there is this paragraph:
"Before performing a baseline restore, the volume to which data is being restored must be of type DP and this volume must be in the restricted state. After a successful restore, this volume is automatically online. You can perform subsequent incremental or differential restores on this volume in the order in which the backups were performed"
For all previous versions / releases of OnTap I have instructed my users to always put the the target volume in restricted mode prior to peforming the NDMP SMTAPE restore with success. Does this no longer apply to NDMP sessions?