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SyncIQ also leverages snapshots for the consistency points required to facilitate replication, failover, and failback between PowerScale clusters. This means that only the changes between the source and target datasets need to be replicated between the two clusters, allowing for efficient replication and granular recovery objectives. The snapshots generated by SyncIQ can also be used for archival purposes on the target cluster.