RPO – RECOVERY POINT OBJECTIVE

If you’re like most small to medium (SMB) businesses, your backups today are able to provide an RPO of between 1 and 4 hours from the time a loss occurred – meaning that in the event that you had to recover from a data loss, you would expect to lose up to the 4 hours of data immediately before the loss.

Where the cost of backup solutions will increase dramatically depends on HOW FAST you want to recover or RTO.

RTO – RECOVERY TIME OBJECTIVE

As the RTO approaches less than an hour or within minutes, the redundancy required to meet the desired objectives is often cost prohibitive for most SMBs. The difference in both time to recover and price varies significantly between solutions. Premium backup and disaster recovery solutions on the market today will return your company to production in between 1 and 4 hours, where the standard (lower cost) solutions provide an RTO of between 24 and 72 hours.