What is a Recovery Point Objective (RPO)?
- Tahir Kulelija
- Nicholas Power
A Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the specific point in time that your data can be recovered to.
Lower RPOs mean less potential for data loss. Conversely, higher RPOs mean potentially more data lost in the event of a disaster.
From within Zerto product you are able to set a "target RPO" for each VPG you create.
SecondSite? powered by Zerto provides incredibly low RPOs of just seconds.
RPO examples
3-10 second RPO
This is the default RPO you will receive with SecondSite? if you have enough bandwidth available. If you needed to fail over, you will experience only between three and 10 seconds of data lost.
8 hour RPO
If your RPO were to extend out to eight hours, a disaster and failover at 8 pm would mean your data will be as it was at 12 pm lunchtime. You will have lost any data entered into systems/applications in the previous eight hours.
24 hour RPO
If your RPO were to extend out to 24 hours due to insufficient bandwidth, a disaster and failover at 2 pm will mean your data will be as it was the day before at 2 pm. Any data that was entered into your systems or applications in the previous 24 hours will be lost.