RTO AND RPO

  • Hai all,

    kindly please help me..
    I want to know RTO and RPO timing on databases.
    what is the syntax?

  • Recovery Time Objective - How much downtime is acceptable. Example, the company will not lose money before 2/4/8 hrs of downtime, or they will lose money from the 1st minute. 

    Recovery Point Objective - What is an acceptable recovery point, and data loss. Example, the company can tolerate losing 1hrs data, so a good recover point would be 1hr prior to the incident or disaster, or they can only tolerate 5mins total data loss.

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  • They're both defined locally. The Recovery Time Objective is how long it takes to recover your database. You have to test it. Recover just a database. Recover a database plus differentials. Recover a database, differentials and the logs to a point in time. How long do those take locally for your data. That's the Recovery Time. The Objective is a maximum amount of time to get the recovery done.

    Recovery point objective is all about what type and how many backups do you have with the idea that some amount of data loss is possible. What is the minimum acceptable? 5 minutes? 10 minutes? 3 days? That then gets translated to the number and type of backups you do.

    There is not a syntax to get this. It's about measuring and communicating with the business.

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