Hi all,
we are designing an archiving workflow and we’d like to get your advice on the best practices from the NetApp perspective.
Our source is a NetApp ONTAP cluster with SnapLock volumes (WORM). The target is a remote LTO tape library (WORM media) managed by Commvault. The goal is long-term retention (10+ years).
From an ONTAP performance and stability standpoint, does it make sense to use a staging disk for the initial backup and then move it to tape, or have you seen better results with other workflows? Also, considering the data is immutable, would you recommend a "Clean Archive" approach to minimize reads from the SnapLock volumes, or are there benefits to periodic full reads for data integrity checks?
Any insights would be greatly appreciated!
