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Recovery point objective (RPO)

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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

Entity Type

Metric92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

Internal75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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