RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

RPO stands for "Recovery Point Objective" and refers to the maximum data loss an organization can accept that occurs between a backup and a system failure.

Example: Can you tolerate losing an hour of your work, four hours of your work, or even days and weeks from a document?

 

This determination is very important, because it allows you to define the interval of a backup. If the RPO is six hours, then a backup must run every six hours. If the backup were to run only every 12 hours, the risk of losing too much data would be too high. However, if it ran every hour, the cost of resources (storage, etc.) would be too high.