Recovery Time Objective The RTO is the maximum amount of time an organization
can be down due to a disaster or an incident. It could be hours or days, depending on
the organization’s tolerance for downtime. RTO can be calculated several ways, including
averaging several RTOs for given processes and systems; or it could be standardized as
the shortest amount of downtime allowable for the most critical business processes or
systems. It could also be calculated as a cumulative result of the minimum time necessary
it takes to restore several critical systems back into operation (using a process called
critical path analysis).
Recovery Time Objective The RTO is the maximum amount of time an organization
can be down due to a disaster or an incident. It could be hours or days, depending on
the organization’s tolerance for downtime. RTO can be calculated several ways, including
averaging several RTOs for given processes and systems; or it could be standardized as
the shortest amount of downtime allowable for the most critical business processes or
systems. It could also be calculated as a cumulative result of the minimum time necessary
it takes to restore several critical systems back into operation (using a process called
critical path analysis).
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