On-disk snapshots are efficient when it comes to recovering a logically corrupted data. Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions (SFHA Solutions) provide a cost effective and very efficient mechanism to manage multiple copies of production data at different points in time. With FlashSnap, you can create a solution to manage the whole lifecycle of snapshots for recovery from logical data corruption. You can create a series of point-in-time copies and preserve them for a specified time or a certain number of copies. You can use the preserved snapshot image itself for business continuity in case of primary storage failure or for off-host processing.

The following example procedures illustrate how to create a full image snapshot and periodic point-in-time copies for recovery. With multiple point-in-time copies to choose from, you can select the point-in-time to which you want to recover with relative precision.