What do they refer to under Raw device recoveries in the admin guide?

It's not possible. Why not restoring back to filer and exporting via CIFS to Windows box?

no - to my knowledge - you can only recover NDMP data back to a NDMP host.

You could back the data up across the LAN, and then recover that to a windows host - but TIME & Amount of data might be the issue.

Just wondering if filer goes bad for a couple of days...we cannot use the backed up data.

Get another filer - that is ndmpd limitation.

Be sure to choose the same manufacturer of filer as NDMP is only a management protocol, it is compatible for all devices, but the data backed up is manufacturer dependent. You can't restore NAS to Cellera for example, it's not possible.