What is the purpose of SnapMirror Business Continuity?

The purpose of SnapMirror Business Continuity is to provide continuous remote data protection. This feature is designed to replicate data to a secondary location, ensuring that in the event of a disaster or data loss at the primary site, users can quickly switch to the secondary site with minimal downtime and loss of data. This replication process helps maintain business operations by safeguarding against unexpected events, thereby allowing organizations to continue their operations with the most current data available. Continuous remote data protection is crucial for maintaining data integrity and availability, particularly in critical business environments.

While local backups and snapshot scheduling are important aspects of data protection, they do not encompass the full scope of continuous protection across remote sites that SnapMirror Business Continuity offers. Optimization of storage performance, while also important, is not the primary focus of this feature. Thus, the choice highlighting continuous remote data protection accurately reflects the core functionality of SnapMirror Business Continuity.