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RPO

Abbreviation for Recovery Point Objective

In short and in plain language

RPO says how much data may be lost at most after an outage.

It is measured as the time since the last backup. The value decides how often a website or shop should be backed up.

It is usually set together with how long a restore may take.

Definition
RPO describes the maximum acceptable data loss after an outage, measured as the time since the last backup. The value determines how often backups of a website or shop should be made. It is usually set together with the acceptable time to restore service.