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RTO (Recovery Time Objective)
How long you can afford to be down, measured in time — e.g. "back up and running within 4 hours."
RTO is the other half of a disaster recovery plan alongside RPO: not how much data you can lose, but how long you can tolerate being offline before it seriously damages the business. A 4-hour RTO for your email system is a very different (and more expensive) commitment than a 24-hour one — and it's only meaningful if it's actually been tested, not just written down.
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