Recovery time objective (RTO)
nounid
3792·updated Aug 30, 2026verified· unreviewed
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
- plural
- Recovery time objective (RTO)S
- possessive
- Recovery time objective (RTO)'s
- pluralpossessive
- Recovery time objective (RTO)S'
Framework definitions
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →
- §1
- 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).
- §1 · legacy_primary
- 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).DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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