BlackBox Hosting CEO explains RPO and RTO with a recovery example
Original title: RPO and RTO explained with a real disaster recovery example
A customer with more than 1,200 virtual machines had a one-second RPO and started in about 90 minutes in tests.
Matthew Burden of BlackBox Hosting defines recovery point objective as acceptable data loss measured in time and recovery time objective as acceptable downtime. He says a backup does not guarantee fast recovery and that each application needs its own tested targets. One customer replicates between two data centers with standby hardware for a contractual one-second RPO and four-hour RTO.
- He recommends testing recovery targets quarterly rather than yearly.
- Quarterly tests brought that environment up in about 90 minutes.
- The example involves more than 1,200 virtual machines.
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1 min read at helpnetsecurity.com
In this Help Net Security video, Matthew Burden, CEO of BlackBox Hosting, explains RPO and RTO and how they differ in practice. RPO, the recovery point objective, is the most data you can lose, measured in time. RTO, the recovery time objective, is the longest your business can stay down.
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