Hi James,
just to mention: since SV/SM is based upon SnapShots that are by design *readonly*, it's not possible to 'wipe' them through file system means. But if a hacker actually gains access to the destination filer itself and messes with it (e.g. vol destroy)...
And yes, you can SMTape. (Neat thing: it keeps dedupe savings, as opposed to NDMP-based backup) *smtape* NAME na_smtape - image-based backup and restore SYNOPSIS smtape backup [ options] path tape_device smtape restore [ options] path tape_device smtape restore -g path smtape restore -h tape_device smtape abort job_id smtape continue job_id [ tape_device] smtape status [ -l ] [ [ -p path] | [ job_id] ] smtape help [ subcommand ] DESCRIPTION The smtape command is used to manage backup and restore operations. It allows user to backup a volume to tape, restore to a volume from tape, abort or continue an operation, show the status of an operation, and get help on smtape command.
HTH
Sebastian
On 15.05.2013 07:54, James Andrewartha wrote:
On 15/05/13 07:13, Mike Gossett wrote:
Thanks everyone for your insight. A VTL isn't in the budget at this point, and candidly I'm not totally sold on the combination snapmirror\snapvault with a pair of filers geographically separated being insufficient, but the client has a particular need.
I'm pretty happy with SV to a geographically diverse filer, but on another mailing list I'm on there's some discussion about how any online backup could be wiped by hackers. I have no interest in setting up a tape infrastructure, so what options are there for offline disk backup? Can you SMTape to disk? NDMP perhaps?
Thanks,