Frequent readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with data protection in general and data restoration specifically. Obviously these two elements are critical for today’s data-intensive businesses and there are a multitude of vendors providing solutions to address these challenges. It can be difficult to assess the benefits of a given approach and the concepts of Recovery Time Objective(RTO) and Restore Point Objective(RPO) are useful metrics to consider when analyzing the benefits of different solutions. In this blog entry, I will discuss these two measures and why they are relevant to your organization.
Recovery Time Objective
This is a critical metric for illustrating the risk of potential downtime. SNIA defines the term as follows:
The maximum acceptable time period required to bring one or more applications and associated data back from an outage to a correct operational state