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Glossary: Resilience and Recovery

mean time to repair (MTTR)

Also written: MTTR, mean time to recover, mean time to restore

The average time from a failure to the system working again: total repair time ÷ number of repairs. A lower MTTR is better.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

mean time between failures (MTBF)maintainabilityavailabilityrecovery time objective (RTO)