What describes an RPO?
What describes an RPO?
RPO stands for Recovery Point Objective. It defines the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time. In other words, it describes the data loss tolerance of a Business Unit or Organization, confirming how much data a company can afford to lose in the event of a disruption.
Repair point objective
RPO, point mean retention mean data loss tolerance
D. RPO defines how long a business can accept data loss RTO on the other hand, is how long it takes to recover from loss
Defines how much data an organization is willing to lose in the event of an outage.
If your RPO is 1 hour, your backup system must ensure that you never lose more than 1 hour’s worth of data. So you'd need backups or replication at least every hour. It’s often paired with RTO (Recovery Time Objective), which is about how quickly systems need to be back online.