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Glossary: Policies, Standards and Risk Management

RTO (recovery time objective)

Also written: RTO, recovery time objective

How fast a process must be running again after an outage, which must be shorter than the MTD. For café orders it is 1 day.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

maximum tolerable downtime (MTD)RPO (recovery point objective)business impact analysis (BIA)