When will people learn?
SNAPSHOTS. ARE. NOT. BACKUPS.
The only thing that should be considered a proper backup is data that has been written to WORM media and has been confirmed good, anything else is worthless for the purpose of backing things up.
While we're at it, RAID is not backup, neither is Disk-to-Disk (useful as -part- of a backup system, but should never be the sole backup strategy).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
