For years, customers with stringent recovery point objectives (RPOs) have used snapshot technology to protect stored data without affecting performance or significantly increasing the amount of storage space consumed. NetApp® Snapshot® copies provide a number of advantages: You can use them for “point-in-time” recovery and create a large number of restore points frequently, without impacting production workloads—even during working hours.
You can also use Snapshot copies to protect data in certain disaster scenarios. You can replicate them to a secondary, often remote storage system for disaster recovery by using NetApp SnapMirror® replication technology, or back up and archive them by using NetApp SnapVault® software.
In short, NetApp Snapshot technology combines performance, scalability, and efficient storage utilization to deliver fantastic RPOs.
