RTO and RPO Explained: Simple Calculator to Avoid Risk
RTO and RPO are the two numbers that decide what a recovery plan is allowed to cost, and most organisations set them without ever pricing the alternatives. This guide explains what each number really measures, where the figures should come from, and then gives you a five-input business calculator that converts hourly downtime cost, hourly data loss cost and failure frequency into a total cost of risk for every recovery tier. It includes a blank worksheet, a fully worked example on a sixty-person firm, indicative UK costs for backup, pilot light, warm standby and active-active, and the testing discipline that turns a target into a fact.
