Disaster Recovery: RTO, RPO, and the Plan You Actually Test | Clickmasters

Backups for generous RPO; replication for tight; multi-region active-passive or active-active as RTO demands — each tier a step-change in cost, bought only where math justifies.

Named roles, decision thresholds, communication templates, and an annual game-day — teams that rehearse recover in hours; teams that don't, improvise in headlines.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.