Recovery Time Objective

Definition

Recovery Time Objective . The period of time within which systems, applications, or functions must be recovered after an outage. RTO includes the time required for: assessment, execution and verification. includes the activities activities related to accomplishing the pre-planned steps required within the phase to deliver a function, system or application in a new location to its owner. Verification includes steps taken by a function, system or application owner to ensure everything is in readiness to proceed to live operations. The period of time following an incident within which a product or service or an activity must be resumed, or resources must be recovered.