RTO and RPO in Disaster Recovery Explained | Resilience Testing | Harness

Struggling with disaster recovery planning? Learn the simple difference between RTO and RPO, the two most important metrics every developer, DevOps engineer, and SRE must understand.

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) tells you exactly how long your systems can stay down before it hurts your business.

RPO (Recovery Point Objective) shows how much recent data you can afford to lose in an outage.

In this quick YouTube Short, we break down RTO vs RPO with a clear visual timeline so even beginners can understand how they impact real-world disaster recovery testing, business continuity, and downtime costs.

Perfect for anyone building resilient systems, running chaos engineering, or preparing for outages in cloud or on-prem environments.

If you're into resilience testing, load testing, or disaster recovery (DR) strategies, this is your starting point.