Backup Requirements Analysis
To analyze the backup requirements, you must first determine the following values:
Recovery Point Objective (RPO): Determines the frequency in which the backups must be created. Basically, this value is the age of files that must be recovered from backup for a business operation to resume after a disaster.
For example, if the age of data, that you can afford to lose, just before a disaster is 30 minutes then the RPO is 30 minutes. It means that you have to create a backup for every 30 minutes.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO): Determines the time that data must be restored from backup.
For example, if data has to be restored in 15 minutes from the time of disaster, then the RTO is 15 minutes.
The RPO value could be different for each data type. For example, the RPO for the API assets data could be one hour whereas the RPO for API analytics could be 24 hours.
Based on your backup requirements, you must ensure the pre-requisites are available.
