RE: Backups versus snapshots
- From: Iggy Fernandez <iggy_fernandez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "kmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <kmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:04:08 -0700
snapshots or backups are just means to an end; that is, meeting the
availability and regulatory requirements within the available budget. if, for
example, you have regulatory requirements to store data for a certain number of
years, then you could copy the contents of the snapshots to tape.
re: if the database goes poof then the snapshot is gone as well
if the database goes poof, then the snapshot remains
iggy
> To be clear, the snapshots are not physical copies of the database. They only
> track the differences between the database at the time of the snapshot and
> the current time. So if the database goes poof then the snapshot is gone as
> well.
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