Recovery point objective (RPO)
RPO defines the maximum acceptable time gap between recoverable data and an outage.
The recovery point objective, or RPO, defines the maximum acceptable time gap between the recoverable data state and an outage. It sets how much time's worth of data changes the business is prepared to lose in a failure.
In a fictional example, the outage occurs at 10:00. The verified consistent data state is from 09:25, leaving a 35-minute gap. With an RPO of 60 minutes, this example meets the target. It is not a promise about future outages.
A 60-minute backup interval does not prove the RPO: backups can be delayed, faulty or incomplete. What counts is the data state that can actually be recovered. RTO describes how long recovery may take.
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