If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail! With that in mind, RPO, RTO, and MTD are part of planning to avoid failure.

… While similar to Recovery Time Objective, this is the extreme — the “do not exceed” version of RTO. For example, RTO says “Let’s design systems for an ideal recovery time of, say, 12 hours,” and MTD finishes that statement with, "but under no circumstances can it go beyond 72 hours, for there will surely be catastrophic, irreversible consequences.”

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