topic Re: Doing backups in addition to snapshots and replication? in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Doing-backups-in-addition-to-snapshots-and-replication/m-p/63764#M15053 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello Scott,</P><P></P><P>If something bad happens to your primary filer, you can always recover from the replica on a secondary site, but keep in mind that SnapMirror is a "mirror" technology, that means that if you have data corruption or lost data on your source, that corruption or missing data is going to be replicated to your destination; I believe the best approach is to use SnapVault, SnapVault is a backup solution rather than a mirror like SnapMirror, a common strategy is to SnapVault from primary filer to secondary filer onsite, and then SnapMirror your vaulted data to a third filer offsite (DR site).</P><P></P><P>SnapShots are great for fast, short term recovery (from minutes to days), but they are not very efficient for long term recovery (months +), that's where SnapVault comes into play.</P><P></P><P>Cheers.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:39:58 GMT ralfaro01zero 2012-10-22T17:39:58Z Doing backups in addition to snapshots and replication? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Doing-backups-in-addition-to-snapshots-and-replication/m-p/63760#M15051 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is there a need to do backups in addition to snapshot and replication?&nbsp; If snapshots go back long enough from a retention period, are there any other concerns that we should be aware of.&nbsp; If the disk has corruption, would you be able to restore a snapshot or replication (probably not?)?&nbsp; Are there any other issues that may come up that we wouldn't be able to restore the files or backups would play a critical role?&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>Thanks,<BR />Scott</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:16:58 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Doing-backups-in-addition-to-snapshots-and-replication/m-p/63760#M15051 scottgraun 2025-06-05T06:16:58Z Re: Doing backups in addition to snapshots and replication? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Doing-backups-in-addition-to-snapshots-and-replication/m-p/63764#M15053 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello Scott,</P><P></P><P>If something bad happens to your primary filer, you can always recover from the replica on a secondary site, but keep in mind that SnapMirror is a "mirror" technology, that means that if you have data corruption or lost data on your source, that corruption or missing data is going to be replicated to your destination; I believe the best approach is to use SnapVault, SnapVault is a backup solution rather than a mirror like SnapMirror, a common strategy is to SnapVault from primary filer to secondary filer onsite, and then SnapMirror your vaulted data to a third filer offsite (DR site).</P><P></P><P>SnapShots are great for fast, short term recovery (from minutes to days), but they are not very efficient for long term recovery (months +), that's where SnapVault comes into play.</P><P></P><P>Cheers.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:39:58 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Doing-backups-in-addition-to-snapshots-and-replication/m-p/63764#M15053 ralfaro01zero 2012-10-22T17:39:58Z