Use of SnapMirror to copy a volume to a tape

You might want to use SnapMirror to copy a volume from a source storage system to a local tape for several reasons.

• Network transfer time of the baseline transfer between a SnapMirror source and a SnapMirror destination is prohibitive.
• You are backing up SnapVault secondary storage data to tape for offline storage or to protect against the possible loss of the SnapVault secondary.

The snapmirror store command does not support SnapMirror qtree replication to tape. If you specify a qtree path as the source or destination, SnapMirror returns an error message.

• Considerations before using SnapMirror copy to tape, as a backup method
  SnapMirror replication to copy data to local tape is meant as an initialization process for SnapMirror relationships and has limitations when used as a backup method. Consider the following limitations before using SnapMirror to tape as a backup method.