Data protection and compliance
Disaster recovery
Getting systems and data back after a serious failure. RTO (recovery time objective) is how long recovery may take; RPO (recovery point objective) is how much recent data you can afford to lose.
A plain-English explanation of how this usually works, not legal advice. Rules differ between countries and change over time, so check your own situation. Disclaimer.
You'll hear it as
Our disaster recovery plan has a four-hour RTO and a fifteen-minute RPO.
Why it matters to you.
Test it. A recovery plan that's never been tried is a guess.
Also called RTO (recovery time objective), RPO.
Related terms.
Videos.
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