Define RTO and RPO.

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RTO and RPO are recovery targets used in disaster recovery and business continuity planning. RTO, or Recovery Time Objective, is the maximum amount of downtime that is acceptable after a disruption—the time within which you aim to restore critical operations. RPO, or Recovery Point Objective, is the maximum amount of data loss that is tolerable, expressed as a point in time (for example, how far back in data you’re willing to go to restore systems).

The described option matches these definitions: RTO as allowable downtime during disruption and RPO as the maximum tolerable data loss in terms of time. In practice, these objectives guide how you design backups, replication, and failover strategies. Shorter RTO means faster recovery and typically more investment in rapid restoration, while shorter RPO requires more frequent data protection measures to minimize data loss. Other descriptions confuse these concepts with maintenance tasks or with uptime, which do not reflect what RTO and RPO intend.