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Azure Backup Recovery Point Objective / Recovery Time Objective

Hello Experts,

I’m in the process of setting up our backup policy with Azure. I’m using Azure Recovery Services Vault. I have setup our retention (Recovery Point Objective) policies without any problem, see image. However, I’m not sure what I need to do to configure our RTO.
Can someone let me know where to configure our RTO?

Regards

Carlton

Jeremy Weisinger

You don't really configure RTO. RTO is how much time you can tolerate in the event of a disaster. So if your RTO is 1 day, then you need to implement a solution where you're able to restore services within 1 day.

Also the retention policy is not your RPO, it is what allows you to achieve your RPO.

You should run a test restore to see if the recovery process will meet your RTO.

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Ahhhhhhh.... that has cleared things up for me.

However, can you elaborate on:

the retention policy is not your RPO, it is what allows you to achieve your RPO

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Brilliant.

Thank Jeremy

Jeremy Weisinger

Glad to help. :)

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Jeremy,

So looking at the attached, would the best RTO that could be achieved be one day?

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Excellent help

Jeremy Weisinger

The RTO, regardless of the recovery points you have, is the target of how fast you can get back up and running.

Let's say you have an RTO of 1 hour. If you can successfully get your system(s) up and running within 1 hour, regardless if you're restoring from an hour ago or a week ago, you have met the the RTO.

Does that make sense?