Recovery time objective (RTO)

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

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The maximum allowable downtime that can occur without severely impacting the recovery of operations or the time in which systems, applications, or business functions must be recovered after an outage (e.g. the point in time that a process can no longer be inoperable).

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Variants

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plural: Recovery time objective (RTO)S
possessive: Recovery time objective (RTO)'s
pluralpossessive: Recovery time objective (RTO)S'

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