Disaster Recovery: RPO and RTO

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Exam Tips:
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO):
  - The time between when a failure occurred and the last successful (recoverable) copy of necessary business data.
  - Goal is to minimize this length of time.
  - The business will help determine this time.
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO):
  - The time between occurrence of a disaster and business required systems are operational again.
- Improve this by decreasing restore time:
  - Hot Spares
  - Processes:
    - Game days
    - Run books