October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 9m
English
RPO defines the amount of data an organization can afford to lose when measured against time.
RTO defines the amount of downtime the organization can afford for its services before it becomes operational again.
Both RPO and RTO are defined by time. For example, an organization can have an RPO set to 4 hours and RTO set to 1 hour. This means, it can afford to lose up to 4 hours of data, but it can only afford a service downtime up to 1 hour.
RTO only defines the amount of time a service can remain unavailable but doesn't account for the data loss. This is where RPO pitches in. It defines how much data loss can be afforded.
For example, if you were a company hosting an online document format conversion service, then ...
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