Recovery point objective (RPO)

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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The amount of data that can be lost without severely impacting the recovery of operations or the point in time in which systems and data must be recovered (e.g., the date and time of a business disruption).

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Recovery point objective (RPO)S
possessive: Recovery point objective (RPO)'s
pluralpossessive: Recovery point objective (RPO)S'

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