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I have a large NetApp environment and I am looking for a new strategy for backing up my filers. I am trying to decide between using SnapVault technology or a VTL with tape.
I am fortunate to be able to replicate all my primary filers to a remote location. From there I want to protect the data. I have a 7 year retention policy for my data. I was thinking of protecting 14 days online, then only monthly's for 7 years.
I rarely do restores and most of the data is flat files.
With SnapVault I am able to transfer data to NearStore. It takes an initial baseline copy, like a full backup, then it it would only "snap" the incremental changes at the block level. I am thinking that this would be very fast for daily backups and I coul
d eliminate tape.
The alternative would be to use my existing NetBackup software to backup each filer via NDMP to a VTL. From the VTL I would apply the same retention. 14 days in the VTL then monthly's to tape for 7 years.
I do not have to takes tape offsite since I am the primary copy is 300 miles away.
So.... I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this. I am concerned with SnapVault since it is all disk and corruptions may happen. It also has a limitation of 251 snaps. That should not be a problem with my retention policy, but my requirements may
change? Also what would happen if I lost the initial baseline copy, does that mean that all the incremental snaps are worthless?
Unfortunately if I go with SnapVault, economically I will not be able to use tape or Netbackup, so at that point I would not have the security of tape.
So .
Thanks in advance for your help.
Pat
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