How long can the system be unavailable?
How much data can we afford to lose?
The first answer helps define your Recovery Time Objective: how quickly service must return.
The second helps define your Recovery Point Objective: how far back your recoverable data may be.
“Immediately” and “nothing” are popular answers—until the cost of achieving them arrives.
Recovery requirements must be based on business impact, not optimism.
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