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RPO (recovery)
Recovery Point Objective
Short definition
The point in the past to which business-process data should be recoverable after an outage, given the available backups. It expresses the data loss tolerated in recovery planning. Meeting this target requires testing; restored data may still need reconciliation with records created during manual workarounds.
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Primary sources
- NIST SP 800-34 Rev. 1, May 2010, updated November 2010Section 3.2.1, printed pages 17–18: definitions and the relationship between recovery targets and tolerable downtime.