A SEPATON solution can address these challenges by improving RTO in the traditional backup process and potentially improving RPO by allowing for less impactful intraday backups.

Ironing out recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) is crucial to balancing what stakeholders want and what it will cost to meet those expectations.

Local Backup Copies While this is a good introduction to the basics of RTO and RPO, it's also a gross oversimplification. The design of an organization's backup approach can affect both RPO and RTO in ...

Combined, RPO and RTO will make up the total amount of loss in a DR scenario. Sometimes, they'll end up being symmetrical, like the example I've been using: an RPO and RTO of 15 minutes.

Effective business continuity and disaster recovery plans ensure your organization can bounce back quickly with minimal loss.

We look at RPO and RTO in defining data protection and disaster recovery strategies and how to specify tiers that reflect the importance of different systems in your organisation.

Assessing backup risk In addition to affecting your RTO and RPO, your method will also affect your risk level. Storing a copy of your data in a hot site immediately next door might give you a ...

But a wise backup operator will immediately recognize that neither of these two factors are really technical issues at all. At their core, RTO and RPO are business objectives, not IT objectives.

If your RTO is 48 hours or 72 hours then maybe tape backup is OK for that specific application. That's the RTO. The RPO is slightly different.

In-Depth How RPO and RTO Impact Business Continuity All backups are not created equal. While having any backup is better than having no backup, the different approaches to backups can have dramatic ...