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Recovery Point Objective (RPO)



















             Point to which information used by an activity must be restored to enable the activity to operate on resumption (can also be





             referred to as maximum data loss) (source ISO22300).









                                                                                                                                                                       DISASTER EVENT














                                            COST








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



                                                                  How much data loss can be                                                                                                                                     How fast do we need to recover?



                                                                  tolerated?                                                                                                           S            S






                                                                                                                                                                              Min                      Min




                                                                                                                                                             Hours                                                Hours



                                                                                                                                           Days                                                                                        Days




                                                                                                                 Weeks                                                                                                                                       Weeks






                                                                                                                            TIME BEFORE EVENT                                                         TIME AFTER EVENT







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