Why aren’t SAN snapshots a good backup solution for SQL Server?

First rule of backups: Backup can’t depend on the production data. SAN snapshots, and I don’t care who your vendor is, by definition depend on the production LUN. We’ll that’s the production data. That’s it. That’s all I’ve got. If that production LUN fails for some reason, or becomes corrupt (which sort of happens a…

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