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Free preview: RTO and RPO — Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning

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.

This is one lesson from Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning.

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