Why Fail-safe Instead of Backup?
- Data corruption or loss can happen with any database management system. To mitigate the risk, DBAs traditionally perform full and incremental backups, but this can double or even triple overall data storage. In addition, data recovery can be painful and costly due to numerous factors, including:
- Time required to reload lost data.
- Business downtime during recovery.
- Loss of data since the last backup.
- Snowflake’s multi-data center, redundant architecture greatly reduces the need for traditional backup; however, risks still exist because data corruption/loss can occur inadvertently. Fail-safe provides an efficient and cost-effective alternative to backup that eliminates the remaining risk and scales with your data.