https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SnapMirror-and-Backup/m-p/125783#M27109 <P>What are the risks of relying only on&nbsp;SnapMirror volume replication between sites for backups of data?&nbsp;</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:08:32 GMT CLOUDMINER 2025-06-04T18:08:32Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SnapMirror-and-Backup/m-p/125783#M27109 <P>What are the risks of relying only on&nbsp;SnapMirror volume replication between sites for backups of data?&nbsp;</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:08:32 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SnapMirror-and-Backup/m-p/125783#M27109 CLOUDMINER 2025-06-04T18:08:32Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SnapMirror-and-Backup/m-p/125794#M27113 <P>Hi <a href="https://community.netapp.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5509">@CLOUDMINER</a></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>please find the issues below if you relay on only snapmirror transfers between sites</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>1. If data got correpted on source and you are not able to notice it with in the time frame of snapmirror transfer, then snapmirror will replicate the correpted data to the destination.</P><P>2. You can not maintain long retentions by using snapmirror like backup tools and snapvault.</P><P>3. Why do you need to waste costly WAN technology only for backups?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If you don't want to use other backup tools then you can go ahead with snapvault technology and also you can attach tapes to netapp and backup the data.</P> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:36:13 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SnapMirror-and-Backup/m-p/125794#M27113 Naveenpusuluru 2016-11-30T11:36:13Z