Free preview lesson · Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning · Module 1: Recovery targets
RTO and RPO
Recovery planning starts with two numbers: how long you can be down, and how much data you can lose.
RTO
Recovery Time Objective is the maximum acceptable time to restore a service.
RPO
Recovery Point Objective is the maximum acceptable data loss, measured in time.
Agree them with the business
Targets are business decisions; IT then designs to meet them.
Common pitfall
Setting targets without checking what they cost to achieve.
Action step
For one system, write down a proposed RTO and RPO and how you would meet them.
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