Time Machine data access is a feature of Nutanix Database Service (NDB) that allows you to access a point-in-time snapshot of a database without restoring it. To use this feature, you need to create a Data Access Management (DAM) policy that defines the access mode, the source database, the destination cluster, and the storage container mapping. The storage container mapping is needed when the source database and the NDB Server containers are different, because NDB needs to know where to store the metadata and the clone of the source database. If the source database and the NDB Server containers are the same, then NDB will use the same container for both the metadata and the clone. References:
* Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB), Section 5 - Protect NDB-managed Databases Using Time Machine
* Database (NCP-DB) Exam Blueprint Guide - Nutanix, Page 9, Objective 5.6
* Nutanix Database Management & Automation (NDMA) course, Module 4, Lesson 4.2 - Data Access Management