Hosting & Infrastructure
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
The maximum acceptable time to restore a system after an outage.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the maximum acceptable length of time a system or application can be down after an outage before the impact becomes unacceptable. An RTO of four hours means service must be restored within four hours of a disruption.
RTO drives choices about redundancy, failover, and standby infrastructure. With Recovery Point Objective (RPO), it defines the targets of a backup and disaster recovery plan and supports HIPAA's availability requirement. How to set and test one is in HIPAA backup and disaster recovery.