SAN based Snapshots and Disaster Recovery

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I wanted to know if anyone has has any expirience of using SAN based snapshots and replication between SANs for disaster recovery. My main worries are around databases and applications like Exchange being recovered from a snapshot, has anyone tested this at all? I am looking at CDP products, but at looking at bare minimum requiresments based on snap shots.

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