There is a lot of confusion between the terms ‘backup’ and ‘replication’. Both are important strategies for data protection, but they are different.
A backup copies files or databases from one location to another for safekeeping. It is a copy of the original data. A backup can be used to restore the data if it is lost or damaged.
Replication copies data from one location to another, but it also keeps a copy of the data at the original location. …
