What is Recovery point objective (RPO)?
In short
The recovery point objective (RPO) is the maximum amount of data loss an organization can accept, measured as a period of time before a disruption.
Key takeaways
- It determines how often data must be backed up or replicated.
- An objective of 15 minutes means data must be copied at least every 15 minutes.
- The recovery time objective, by contrast, is how quickly systems must be restored.
Where it's tested
ISC: Incident Response & Monitoring — study notes, a five-minute revision sheet and practice questions.
Practise: 3 questions
Question 1 of 3 · 0 answered
A company can tolerate losing at most 15 minutes of transaction data in a disaster. Which metric does this define, and what does it drive?