The recovery point goal, abbreviated as RPO, concerns the frequency of backups. In contrast, the recovery time objective, abbreviated RTO, involves the time required for a full recovery. In addition, RPO and RTO can evaluate the extent to which a system outage will affect company activities while the outage is in progress.   RPO measures how frequently backups are taken and indicates the amount of data that will be lost or need to be re-entered after an outage. RPO is a measure of how frequently backups are taken. On the other hand, RTO refers to the amount of unplanned downtime a company may tolerate. It estimates how long it could take for a system to get back up and running following an interruption in business operations.