To some it seems like recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) are interchangeable items. But they are distinctly different and have a different purpose. RTO focuses on the time frame involved in which an organization will be able to resume business after an incident or disaster. It is measured in minutes, hours, […]
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Recovery Time Objective (RTO) – the maximum length of time that a business process can be unavailable. This is measured in terms of time elapsed from the beginning of a disaster until the systems are operating again. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – how much work in progress can be lost.
Hot site service is cloud-based disaster recovery with a 1-4 hour RTO and 15 minute RPO. Warm sites have shared, managed services with RTOs of 8 to 24 hours and RPOs based on the last backup.
For businesses, cloud-based backup and recovery has become common these days. If backup is fast enough to fit within a backup window, and if recovery times hit recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) service levels, you’re golden. After that, it gets complicated. Backup and recovery are critical components of disaster recovery (DR), but alone they can’t assure that ...
