What is Disaster Recovery (RTO and RPO)?

Definition: Disaster recovery (DR) is the plan and infrastructure for restoring a platform after a serious failure, such as a data centre outage or a cyber incident. Two metrics define its targets.

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) - the maximum acceptable time to bring the service back online.
RPO (Recovery Point Objective) - the maximum acceptable period of data that can be lost, e.g. the last five minutes of transactions.

DR components:

Regular backups stored in a separate location.
Database replication to a secondary site.
Failover procedures and runbooks.
Scheduled DR tests that confirm RTO and RPO in practice.

Why it matters in iGaming: player balances, open bets and transaction records must be restored accurately, so RPO for wallet and betting data is set as close to zero as possible.

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What is Disaster Recovery (RTO and RPO)?

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