Recovery time objective, or RTO, refers to maximum amount of time the business can afford to be without access to the data or application-or, how quickly you need to recover the data and application.Typically, the first step in creating a backup strategy-especially an enterprise backup strategy-is to determine recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives for each data source and application. How you back up your data and applications (i.e., how frequently you back them up and to what device or location) depends on the cost of losing access to the data and applications for any period of time and the cost of replacing or recreating the data if it’s lost for good. For a closer look at disaster recovery strategies and planning, see “ Disaster Recovery: An Introduction.” Strategy and planning What is backup and restore?īackup and restore refers to technologies and practices for making periodic copies of data and applications to a separate, secondary device and then using those copies to recover the data and applications-and the business operations on which they depend-in the event that the original data and applications are lost or damaged due to a power outage, cyberattack, human error, disaster, or some other unplanned event.īackup and restore is an essential component of any business’ disaster recovery strategy. With digital transformation in full swing, the demand for increasingly scalable, capable, and affordable backup and recovery solutions has never been greater.
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