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Why do you need Sync with Backup in Transactional Replication?

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I am setting the transactional replication.My boss is worried about the point in time recovery on the subscriber if anything failson the subsciber .My question is I know we have log retention period of 2-3 days by default . Will that not take care of replaying the logs from publisher when there is a failure on the subsciption or distributor level?

Thanks

Venkat

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