When we talk about data backup and restore, we need to talk

about two essential terms:

• Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
• Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

Knowing how much data loss is tolerable for business impact

(RPO) and the maximum amount of time your business can

tolerate to be offline (RTO) is important . It defines how you

build your backup strategy, how frequently the backup jobs

will run and what type of backup is required. This recovery

objectives don’t follow a general rule. Each company has other

requirements for their business which defines their recovery

objectives. If you want to read about RPO and RTO, our blog

post “Why do recovery time and recovery point objectives

matter?” explains more about RPO and RTO and how to gather

the information required to define the values for your

environment.