Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective in Disaster Recovery.

1. RTO & RPO

2. Introduction

3. Business Continuity Planning
(BCP)

4. Business continuity planning involves:
→ defining potential risks
→ determining how those risks will affect operations
→ implementing safeguards and procedures designed to
mitigate those risks
→ testing those procedures to ensure that they work
→ periodically reviewing the process to make sure that it is up
to date.

5. How do we do this?

6. RTO & RPO

7. Basically, how much data and time you can afford to lose.

8. Recovery Time Objective

9. → target time you set for the recovery of your IT and business
activities after a disaster has struck
→ calculate how quickly you need to recover
→ dictates the type or preparations you need to implement and
the overall budget you should assign to business continuity

10. Recovery Point Objective

11. → focused on data and your company’s loss tolerance in
relation to your data
→ determined by looking at the time between data backups
and the amount of data that could be lost in between
backups

12. Differences?

13. Two parts of the same coin

14. → RTO is usually large scale, and looks at your whole business
and systems involved
→ RPO focuses just on data and your company’s overall
resilience to the loss of it.
→ RTO deals with downtime, RPO with data loss.

16. Why do we do this?

17. → How many employees will be affected if the critical system
failed?
→ How much revenue would be lost as result of system failure?

18. What you should remember

19. → Every data may not be critical for the business.
→ Plan RTO and RPO for Business Critical Systems.
→ Different systems have different RPO.

20. Thank you!
Yankee Maharjan
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