17. Recovery Point Objective
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Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the maximum amount of time that your system can lose data for. RPO is not tied to whether your system is available, it is a measure of the window of time that you may lose data in. If you take a database snapshot at midnight every day and you have a data corruption issue at 7:00am requiring you to restore from backup, you have a 7 hour RPO. It may take you until 8:00am to restore service, but as long as your data loss stops at 7:00am, that is when your RPO window closes.