If you don't meet your company's Recovery time objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective with your backup design, nothing else matters. Seriously. No one cares if you can back up – only that you can restore in a timeframe they consider reasonable. The only way that's going to happen is if you agree to these times UPFRONT. In this episode in our new back to basics series, we'll jump right into this extremely important topic. We'll explain what RTO & RPO are, what recovery time and recovery point actual are, and how they relate to RTO & RPO. We'll also explain how to get your company to agree to them.