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What is the difference between a replica and a recovery point, and how are they used in data protection and recovery?

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What is the difference between a replica and a recovery point, and how are they used in data protection and recovery?

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Replicas are full copies of a selected data source that the DPM server creates and maintains to provide data protection. To provide continuous protection of current data, DPM synchronizes the replica with the changes that occur on the protected servers on a recurring schedule. DPM creates the replica once, and thereafter it is only updated with the changes from the protected server. Synchronization is the process by which DPM transfers data changes from a protected server to a DPM server, and then applies the changes to the replica of the protected data. DPM automatically validates the replica against the production server to ensure that the replication is consistent and has occurred as planned. To provide you with more versions of your data from which to recover, DPM creates point-in-time copies of the replica — known as recovery points — on a recurring schedule. You access recovery points to recover previous versions of your protected data. When you select a recovery point, DPM provi

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