Definitions - Part 2

Continuing the definitions...courtesy of DRJ.com:

RTO (Recovery Time Objective): The period of time within which systems, applications, or functions must be recovered after an outage (e.g. one business day). RTO’s are often used as the basis for the development of recovery strategies, and as a determinant as to whether or not to implement the recovery strategies during a disaster situation.

RPO (Recover Point Objective): The maximum amount of data loss an organization can sustain during an event.

I may go on with some other BCP and DR terms, but next on my agenda is to cover the difference between BCP and DR. I have frequently heard the terms used interchangeably and they aren't / shouldn't be.

To start -- here is a link to an InformIT Reference guide that does a good job of explaining the difference.