Which Veeam Backup & Replication functionality achieves the lowest RPO?

Question

Options

• ABackup Copy Job
• BContinuous Data Protection
• CSnapshot-based Replication
• DFile to Tape

• A
  5% (1)
• B
  71% (15)
• C
  14% (3)
• D
  10% (2)

Explanation

Within Veeam Backup & Replication, the functionality that achieves the lowest Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is B: Continuous Data Protection (CDP). CDP is designed to protect critical workloads by continuously capturing changes and replicating them to a target site, allowing for very low RPOs, often measured in seconds. This is achieved through the use of VMware's vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering (VAIO), which intercepts and replicates I/O streams almost in real- time. CDP is particularly valuable for applications that require high levels of availability and cannot tolerate significant data loss. By providing near-continuous replication, CDP ensures that in the event of a failure or disaster, data loss can be minimized to a very narrow window, significantly reducing the potential impact on business operations.

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