A company wants to archive ONTAP Snapshots to S3 for long-term retention with minimal storage cost. Which NetApp technology should they use?

• A. SnapMirror Synchronous
• B. SnapMirror Cloud
• C. FlexGroup replication
• D. SVM DR

Answer: (B)

SnapMirror Cloud is the method designed for moving NetApp ONTAP Snapshots into cloud object storage like S3 for long‑term retention at low cost. It lets you create a cloud-based SnapMirror relationship so Snapshots are archived to S3, and then you can keep those archived Snapshots in the cloud as long as you need. After the initial seed, only incremental changes are transferred, which minimizes bandwidth and storage costs while preserving point-in-time backups for compliance or archival purposes.

The other options don’t fit this use case: SnapMirror Synchronous is about real-time replication between NetApp systems, not cloud archiving. FlexGroup replication targets DR between on-prem clusters, not cloud object storage. SVM DR focuses on disaster recovery at the SVM level, not archiving Snapshots to S3.