RTO and RPO come from the top and must be determined by a combination of stakeholder needs and the financial cost of meeting those needs. It is a business decision, not a technical one.

But a wise backup operator will immediately recognize that neither of these two factors are really technical issues at all. At their core, RTO and RPO are business objectives, not IT objectives.

Frankham Group ditches archaic tape backup and deploys Rubrik backup appliances and remote disaster recovery facility. Meanwhile, the engineering group assesses a move to the cloud.