The whitepaper "How Much Data Loss Can You Tolerate?" by Rocket Software addresses critical risks associated with data loss and recovery strategies. It highlights that common infrastructure-level protections like SAN replication, snapshots, or file sync often fall short of meeting modern Recovery Point Objective (RPO) requirements, leaving businesses vulnerable to significant data loss. Nearly 70% of IT leaders mistakenly rely solely on these methods, which do not guarantee recovery up to the moment of failure. Rocket Software advocates for database-specific protection mechanisms such as Transaction Logging—called "Transaction Journaling" in their jBASE system—which records changes at the database record level rather than disk blocks.

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