Question

A company's finance database is critical, but management has stated that in a disaster the business can tolerate losing at most 15 minutes of transaction data. The IT team is designing the backup and replication strategy to meet this requirement. Which metric are they primarily addressing, and how should it drive their design?

Accepted Answer

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) — schedule replication or backups at intervals no greater than 15 minutes

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Recovery Time Objective (RTO) — ensure systems are restored to operation within 15 minutes

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Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) — increase hardware reliability so failures occur less than every 15 minutes

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Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) — train staff to repair failed components in under 15 minutes