Recovery strategies determine how quickly and completely an organization can restore operations after a disruption. They are driven by the business impact analysis (BIA). The recovery time objective (RTO) sets how fast a function must be restored, the recovery point objective (RPO) sets how much data loss is tolerable, and the maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) sets the outer limit before the organization suffers unacceptable harm. The RTO must be shorter than the MTD. Every strategy choice is a trade-off between cost and how well it meets those objectives, and management decides the balance.
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