On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, W. Curtis Preston wrote:
> The biggest example of this is that snapshots (copy on
> write) can't protect you against a large disk failure on the primary, where
> copies can.

But, in fact, without serious tweaking of their semantics -- playing with
their state in non-supported ways -- volume snapshots do not, either.
Their command model is designed to support use for backup, not as a
recovery platform.
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