Effective business continuity and disaster recovery plans ensure your organization can bounce back quickly with minimal loss.

Define RTO and RPO. RTO is defined by the global ICT standard for disaster recovery, ISO/IEC 27031:2011, as: “The period of time within which minimum levels of services and/or products and the ...

The two metrics are recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). RTO is about how fast you need your operations back on track after a disaster, while RPO is essentially the ...

RPO addresses the granularity of recovery and the frequency of backup. SNIA defines it as follows: The maximum acceptable time period prior to a failure or disaster during which changes to data ...

Fortunately, recovery assurance technology now exists that is able to automate DR testing without disrupting production systems and can certify RTO and RPO targets are being met for 100 percent ...

Build the disaster-recovery plan. When the RPO and RTO are established, you are ready to build a disaster-recovery plan. As you build the plan, keep these best practices top of mind: ...

Fortunately, recovery assurance technology now exists that is able to automate DR testing without disrupting production systems and can certify RTO and RPO targets are being met for 100 percent ...

Recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). Neglecting to define and align RTOs and RPOs with cloud capabilities can result in inadequate recovery strategies.

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) RPO is the latest “point in time” to restore an SQL Server after disaster recovery. RPO depends upon the backup frequency – more frequent backups allow restoration to a ...

If your RTO and RPO are very forgiving, you could rely on database backups stored on the DR site. In little more than the time it takes to restore the latest backup—which could take anywhere from ...