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RPO / RTO Recovery Planner

Compare recovery targets with modeled data-loss exposure and restore duration. The outcome is a planning screen—not a guarantee of recovery.

Planning inputs

Target RPO (minutes)Maximum acceptable data loss

Target RTO (minutes)Maximum acceptable outage

Log backup interval (minutes)For FULL or BULK_LOGGED recovery

Maximum full backup age (hours)Used for restore-chain size model

Full backup size (GB)Compressed backup size

Log generated per hour (GB)Typical log volume

Effective restore throughput (GB/hour)Measure from test restores

Fixed recovery overhead (minutes)Detection, provisioning, validation, cutover

Recovery approach

Recovery estimate

Modeled worst-case data loss—

Estimated restore duration—

How the estimate works

Assumes all backup files are available and valid. A differential backup, instant file initialization, parallelism, log volume, tail-log backup, recovery redo/undo, and infrastructure constraints may materially change actual duration. Log-backup intervals do not cap data loss if log backups fail. Only rehearsed recovery demonstrates achievable RPO/RTO.