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February 2, 2024 (Updated January 2, 2026)
9 min to read
RTO vs RPO: What’s the Difference?
When the unexpected hits, your recovery speed comes down to two critical metrics: Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
RPO is how much data you can afford to lose. RTO is how long you can afford to be offline. Together, they define your organization’s resilience thresholds: the point beyond which downtime or data loss becomes unacceptable. Read more
