A research company has data protection requirements with an RTO of 30 minutes and an RPO of one hour. Which of the following data protection and recovery solutions would BEST solve this requirement?

Full-based backups generally have higher RTOs and RPOs due to the time required to restore large datasets and the infrequent nature of full backups.

Clone-based solutions involve creating full, independent copies of data, which can be resource-intensive and may not provide the granular recovery points or rapid restore times needed for these specific RTO/RPO targets as efficiently as snapshots.

Snapshot-based solutions efficiently capture the state of a system or data at a specific point in time, allowing for rapid recovery (low RTO) and minimal data loss (low RPO). This method is well-suited for an RTO of 30 minutes and RPO of one hour, as restoring from a snapshot is typically much faster than full backups and provides a recent recovery point.

Mirroring-based solutions provide continuous data replication, achieving near-zero RTO and RPO, which is overkill and more costly than necessary for an RTO of 30 minutes and RPO of one hour.