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I often get asked the question "What is the difference between RTO and RPO?"

The answerer is not as mysterious as if would first appear. But let's step back a little and understand what the terms RTO and RPO actually mean first.

RTO, or Recovery Time Objective, is essentially the maximum amount of time a business can afford for a system or application to be unavailable.

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Obviously systems and applications not covered by the Disaster Recovery contract could have a significantly longer RTO; this is where a sound Threat Assessment and Business Impact Analysis (along with budget) would assist in determining which systems and applications would be covered (please see my other articles for details on Threat Assessment and Business Impact Analysis for more information).

RTOs can range from zero to weeks (or even months) depending on the criticality and budget of the business concerned. It is quite acceptable to have different RTOs for individual systems or applications depending on criticality and risk appetite. I will be covering risk appetite in more detail in my BS 25999 articles.

Right, now we know what RTO is we can look in more detail at RPO.

RPO, or Recovery Point Objective, is essentially the state or point a business believes it needs to recover to in order to carry on business following an unplanned [url=http://www.mansmanifesto.com]www.mansmanifesto.com[/url] interruption. RPO really shows how much data loss you can afford. Your initial reaction might be that I can't afford to lose any data, but remember the shorter the RTO and RPO, the more money you will need to spend. As an example, many financial institutions have split site operations, or data replication, where a dedicated infrastructure will give very short, or even zero RPOs and RTOs. Let's look in a little more detail what defines the RPO.

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When developing your Business Continuity Plan you will define what the maximum RPO you can (or will) accept for each defined area. Remember, the shorter RPO, the more money you will need to spend. Not everyone can afford data replication, along with the associated infrastructure costs, such as network, computer systems, facilities, staff, management, etc, etc, that are associated with such a solution.

I will cover Split Site, Data Replication and Hot Recovery in another article.

So, put simply, RTO is the amount of time that a system or application is unavailable following a disruption, and RPO is the amount of data you would lose.
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