A company is reviewing its disaster recovery plan to ensure that the amount of data loss in the event of a disaster does not exceed business operational tolerances. Which metric should be assessed to determine the optimal frequency of data backups?
The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) represents the maximum period of data that an organization can tolerate losing during a disaster event. A tighter RPO calls for more frequent backups, whereas a lenient RPO allows for less frequent backups. Understanding the RPO helps to determine the backup schedule that aligns with the business's data loss tolerance. On the contrary, Recovery Time Objective (RTO) focuses on the maximum amount of time an organization can tolerate to recover operations; meanwhile, Single Loss Expectancy (SLE) and Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE) pertain to financial impacts of data loss and do not directly dictate backup frequencies.
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