In the context of data protection and recovery, which of the following statements about replication is correct?

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Replication can increase the risk of data loss due to hardware failures, human errors, or malicious attacks.

Replication involves creating and maintaining exact copies of data on different storage systems or locations.

Replication is a data compression technique that optimizes storage space by identifying and eliminating redundant data.

Replication involves creating and maintaining different versions of data on the same storage system.