Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
The RTO and RPO are crucial to designing a disaster recovery strategy. Hence, these two are extremely important aspects to understand from the exam perspective RTO.
The RTO is a measure of the organization’s tolerance to system downtime. In other words, the RTO is the extent of the acceptable system downtime. For example, an RTO of 2 hours indicates that an organization will not be overly impacted if its system is down for up to 2 hours.
RPO
The RPO is a measure of the organization’s tolerance to data loss. In other words, the RPO is the extent of acceptable data loss. For example, an RPO of 2 hours indicates that an organization will not be overly impacted if it loses data for up to 2 hours.
The following figure further explains each of them:
Figure 8.3: RTO and RPO
The following practical examples will help you better understand the preceding diagram:
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