This article explains the core concepts of disaster recovery and data backup—including RTO, RPO, recovery levels, cloud disaster recovery, backup types, copy data management, deduplication, compression, and block/file/database backup—while also noting related commercial offerings.
The article analyzes the evolution of data protection—from manual copies and scripts to snapshots and Continuous Data Protection (CDP)—explaining CDP's technical principles, implementation models, advantages over traditional backup, and how Copy Data Management (CDM) complements modern storage strategies in large‑scale enterprises.
The article analyzes the evolution of data protection—from manual copies and scripts to snapshots, Continuous Data Protection (CDP), and Copy Data Management (CDM)—highlighting their technical mechanisms, benefits such as near‑zero RPO, implementation models, vendor landscape, and key considerations for selecting the right solution in modern cloud‑centric environments.
