Business Impact Analysis

Updated 31 Jul 2026

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  quantifying how quickly systems need to recover, and how much data loss is acceptable, after a disruption
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key metrics
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  RTO (Recovery Time Objective) — how quickly a service level needs to be restored
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  RPO (Recovery Point Objective) — how much data loss is acceptable, i.e. how far back the restored data can go
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  MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) — the average time required to fix an issue, including diagnosis time
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  MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) — the average time between outages, either predicted or calculated from historical performance (total uptime / number of breakdowns)
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related
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  Resilience
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cards
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  Distinguish RTO, RPO, MTTR, and MTBF
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    RTO: how fast you need to be back up; RPO: how much data loss is acceptable; MTTR: average time to fix an issue; MTBF: average time between failures

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