How Often Should You Back Up Your Website for Safety?

Why Backup Frequency Matters

Choosing a backup frequency is a business decision, not a technical one. The stakes go beyond just having a safety net; they directly affect your bottom line and operational resilience. When disaster strikes, whether through a failed update, security breach, accidental deletion, or hosting failure, the recency of your last clean backup determines how quickly you can recover and how much data you lose.

The Hidden Cost of Downtime

Website downtime is expensive, and most business owners dramatically underestimate the true cost by a factor of three or more. For small and mid-sized businesses, downtime typically costs between $100 and $5,000 per hour in direct revenue loss alone. That’s just the immediate impact. When you factor in indirect costs, support tickets explode as customers try to resolve issues, your team drops everything to investigate the problem, customer confidence erodes with each hour of downtime, and service-level agreements may entitle customers to credits or refunds, the real cost quickly becomes two to ten times higher than the base revenue loss.

Consider a concrete example: an e-commerce site with $300,000 in annual revenue loses roughly $34 per hour during an outage, assuming evenly distributed traffic across the year. But this assumes steady traffic. During peak times, holiday shopping seasons, seasonal sales events, or right after a marketing campaign, that figure climbs sharply. A four-hour outage during peak season isn’t a $136 loss; it represents an entire day’s revenue, plus orders that won’t retry when your site comes back online. Customers frustrated by the downtime may shop competitors instead, resulting in permanent lost revenue beyond the outage window.

What Triggers the Need to Restore

Understanding what can fail helps you design the right backup strategy. Failed plugin or theme updates can corrupt your database or file structure, leaving your site broken and inaccessible until you can roll back to a working state. Accidental deletion by a team member, whether a database record gets dropped, a page gets removed, or an entire folder is cleared, creates immediate data loss that only a backup can recover. Security breaches and malware infections can corrupt or encrypt your data, making your current site dangerous or unusable.

Hosting outages or hardware failures at your provider can take your server offline, and even if the host restores their infrastructure, you need a current backup to confirm your data wasn’t damaged. Migration mistakes when moving to new hosting can introduce data loss through incomplete transfers or configuration errors. In most of these scenarios, a backup taken within the last hour or day is the difference between a quick recovery and a business crisis. This is why backup frequency directly correlates to your actual recovery capability.

Website Backup Plans & Pricing

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Website Backup 5 GB

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• Automatic daily backups
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• Secure cloud storage
• Expert 24/7 customer support
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Website Backup 50 GB

$6.99 / per month

Recommended for videos and multimedia.

• Automatic daily backups
• Built-in daily malware scanning
• Back up a file, folder or an entire database
• Continuous security monitoring
• Downloads to local storage
• Easy one-click restore
• Secure cloud storage
• Expert 24/7 customer support
• One website per account

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Backup Frequency by Site Type

Not all websites need the same backup schedule. The right frequency depends on how often your content and databases change, how critical your site is to your business operations, and how much data loss you can tolerate. A static brochure site updated monthly has entirely different needs than a news site posting dozens of stories daily or an e-commerce platform processing transactions around the clock.

Low-Activity and Small Business Sites

Static brochure sites, small portfolios, documentation sites, and small business websites updated infrequently can often get by with weekly backups, supplemented with manual backups immediately before planned changes. For small websites that rarely change, weekly backups are typically recommended, sometimes enhanced with manual on-demand backups before major redesigns, hosting migrations, or platform upgrades. The reasoning is straightforward: if your site hasn’t changed in a week, last week’s backup is a complete and accurate copy of your site.

The trade-off is temporal risk. If disaster strikes on a Friday evening and your weekly backup runs on Monday morning, you’ve lost up to six days of any changes made in between. For sites where updates are planned, rare, and typically happen during business hours with full team awareness, this gap is usually acceptable. Many small sites using this schedule combine weekly automatic backups with a disciplined “backup before action” habit, manually triggering a backup immediately before updating plugins, changing hosting providers, redesigning the site, or making major configuration changes. This practice is surprisingly effective at preventing restore nightmares because you always have a known-good state from moments before the change.

High-Activity and Revenue-Generating Sites

Blogs, news sites, e-commerce platforms, membership sites, and any site handling transactions or sensitive customer data should back up daily or more frequently. For blogs, service-based websites, or sites with regular content updates, a daily backup schedule is recommended to capture new content, comments, or changes made throughout the day. In contrast, e-commerce sites and platforms handling transactions should ideally have backups done in real time or at least hourly. Daily backups are fast enough to run during off-peak hours without noticeably affecting site performance or user experience.

With daily backups, the worst-case data-loss window is one full day of activity: articles posted yesterday, comments from last night, settings changed this morning, or orders processed yesterday. For a blog or news site, losing 24 hours of posts is frustrating but usually not catastrophic; readers expect content to accumulate over time, and you can republish older content if needed. For e-commerce sites, however, one day of lost transactions is unacceptable because each order represents revenue and customer trust. E-commerce and membership sites therefore typically need hourly or continuous backups to minimize data loss. Many high-traffic sites using managed backup services use daily full backups combined with hourly incremental backups, providing granular recovery points without the storage overhead of multiple full backups per day.

Understanding Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

Backup frequency decisions become much clearer once you understand two core concepts from disaster recovery planning. These metrics define your actual tolerance for downtime and data loss, and they drive everything else about your backup strategy.

Recovery Time Objective (RTO): How Long Can You Be Down?

RTO is the maximum acceptable time your site can be offline before the business impact becomes unacceptable. An e-commerce website might have an RTO of 2 hours, meaning the company must restore the site within 2 hours to minimize lost sales and reputational damage. A SaaS platform might set an RTO of 1 hour because every minute offline costs customers. A financial trading platform might demand an RTO of 15 minutes because downtime costs millions of dollars per minute.

Your RTO isn’t how long recovery actually takes in practice; it’s a target and a commitment to your business stakeholders. If your actual recovery time exceeds your RTO, you have a gap in your disaster recovery plan that you need to address through infrastructure improvements, faster backup methods, or standby systems. RTOs force you to think ahead strategically: Do we have the infrastructure in place to restore quickly? Is my backup stored in a location and format that allows fast recovery? Have I tested recovery to determine how long it takes in a real crisis?

Recovery Point Objective (RPO): How Much Data Can You Lose?

RPO is the maximum acceptable data loss, measured in time. If your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is set to 1 hour, you’re willing to lose up to one hour’s worth of data in the event of a major incident. If disaster strikes at 3 PM and your last backup ran at 2 PM, you’re within your RPO and can restore safely. If your last backup was at 8 AM, you’re outside your RPO and will lose all changes from 8 AM to 3 PM.

Your RPO directly determines your backup frequency. If your RPO is 24 hours, daily backups meet that requirement. If it’s 1 hour, backups must run every hour. If it’s 15 minutes, you need backups running every 15 minutes. An RPO of “near-zero” (acceptable only for mission-critical systems handling continuous data) usually means continuous replication or real-time sync to a backup system, not traditional scheduled backups. RPO and RTO work together as a pair: you might have an RTO of 2 hours (acceptable downtime) but an RPO of 1 hour (acceptable data loss). That means you can tolerate 2 hours offline, but you can’t afford to lose more than 1 hour of transactions or content, so your backup frequency must support that RPO, and your restore procedure must support that RTO.

Full Backups vs. Incremental Backups

Once you’ve decided how often to back up, the next decision is which backup type best serves your needs. Full and incremental backups serve different purposes and work best together in a combined strategy, not on their own.

Full Backups: Complete Snapshots

A full backup creates a complete copy of your entire website at one specific moment in time- every file, every database record, every setting, everything. A full backup is the simplest and most comprehensive form of data protection, creating a complete snapshot of all data at a specific point in time. Think of it like taking a detailed photograph of your entire website exactly as it exists at that specific moment, then storing that frozen image for later recovery.

Full backups are simple to restore: you have one self-contained, complete backup file, and restoring is straightforward; extract and redeploy. The downside is that full backups take longer to create, potentially hours on large sites with extensive media libraries or large databases. They consume significant storage space because they copy everything each time, including files that haven’t changed since the last backup. Full backups are more reliable because each full backup is independent and doesn’t depend on previous backups. Many sites run a full backup weekly or monthly, then supplement with faster backup methods in between. Full backups before major changes, plugin updates, migrations, redesigns, and platform changes are also standard practice because they create a known-good baseline.

Incremental Backups and Combined Strategies

An incremental backup captures only the files and database records that have changed since the last backup, whether that was a full backup or a previous incremental. Incremental backups save only the files that have changed since the last backup, making them much faster and taking up less storage space than full backups. If you updated one blog post since your last backup, an incremental backup saves only that post and related database changes, not all your unchanged images, plugins, themes, and configuration files.

Best practice combines both: periodic full backups with daily incremental backups to shorten the incremental backup chain and improve the reliability of backup replicas. This combination gives you the safety and simplicity of regular full snapshots with the speed and storage efficiency of incremental backups in between. Many managed backup services handle this automatically, so you don’t have to think about it: they run a full backup weekly and incremental backups daily, managing the chain transparently.

Setting Your Own Backup Schedule

Once you understand backup types and your business’s Recovery Time and Recovery Point objectives, you can build a schedule tailored to your site’s specific needs. The process is straightforward but requires honest assessment of your risk tolerance and operational requirements.

Assess Your Site Type and Define Your Tolerance

Start by asking fundamental questions about your site: How often does my site’s content or database actually change? Is it static (rarely updated), ongoing (daily updates), or constant (hourly changes)? How critical is my site to my business? Does revenue flow through it, customer data live in it, or mission-critical operations depend on it? How much downtime can my business tolerate before revenue, reputation, or compliance suffers seriously? How much recent data can I afford to lose before business operations are significantly impacted?

These questions point to the right backup frequency range for your situation. A personal blog updated weekly might be comfortable with weekly backups. A SaaS product handling transactions needs daily or hourly backups. An agency website managing client content needs daily backups because clients update regularly. A financial platform needs hourly or continuous backups because each minute of downtime costs money. Write down your RTO (maximum acceptable downtime) and RPO (maximum acceptable data loss, in time), then refer to these targets when making infrastructure decisions.

Choose Frequency Based on Business Risk

Your RPO determines your minimum backup frequency requirement. If your RPO is 24 hours, daily backups are sufficient. If it’s 1 hour, backups must run hourly. If it’s 15 minutes, you need 15-minute backup intervals or continuous replication. For most business websites, daily backups strike the right balance, frequent enough to limit data loss to an acceptable window, but not so frequent that they strain hosting resources or fill your backup storage. For e-commerce or revenue-generating sites, daily or hourly backups are standard practice. For mission-critical systems, hourly or continuous backups are typical. Many site owners choose conservatively, daily for anything with revenue or customer data, then adjust only if server load becomes an issue.

The Importance of Testing Your Backups

A backup you can’t restore is effectively worthless. Many organizations create backups religiously and methodically, running them on perfect schedules, but never actually test them until the moment they need to restore and discover the backup is corrupted, incomplete, incompatible with current infrastructure, or stored in an inaccessible location. The worst possible time to discover this is when your site is already down, and you’re under pressure to restore immediately.

Why Backup Testing Matters

Testing backups is essential to ensure you can recover important files in the event of data loss or corruption, and you should understand the seriousness of backup testing, have a documented testing plan, and make testing a routine part of your backup strategy. Backup testing turns a backup policy into an actual recovery capability. Many organizations have beautiful backup schedules on paper, but without testing, they’re just hopes.

Backup testing (also called restore verification) proves three critical things: that your backup files are complete and not silently corrupted, that your recovery process actually works end-to-end with your current hosting setup, and that you know exactly how long restoration takes. A backup is useless if you can’t open and use the files when a crisis hits, so restore verification tests your backups to prove your data, source code, or infrastructure can be recovered and made fully operational. The confidence you gain from knowing your backups work is invaluable during an actual crisis.

How Often Should You Test?

Test frequency depends on how critical your site is to your operations. For most websites, monthly testing is standard practice and sufficient to catch most problems. High-traffic or mission-critical sites might test weekly to stay ready.

At minimum, test after any major change, hosting migration, major plugin update, platform upgrade, or infrastructure change, to confirm the backup actually reflects your current setup and can be restored properly. Many managed backup services automate backup testing in the background, running periodic restore verifications without needing your involvement or knowledge.

Automated vs. Manual Backup Scheduling

You can manage backups in two ways: manually (logging into your hosting control panel and triggering backups by hand as you remember) or completely automated (backups run on a schedule without human intervention). The choice significantly affects both consistency and administrative burden.

Manual Backups: Control and Discipline

Manual backups put you in direct control. You decide exactly when backups run, which helps if you want to time them around low-traffic hours, immediately after major site changes, or during scheduled maintenance windows. You maintain full visibility into the backup process and can respond immediately if something goes wrong. The downside is that manual backups depend entirely on discipline and memory; you have to remember to run them, prioritize them despite competing demands, and follow through consistently.

Most site owners who attempt manual backup schedules fall behind within a few weeks or months. Something more urgent comes up, the backup gets postponed, meetings run late, and suddenly you haven’t backed up in three weeks. When disaster strikes, you’re stuck with an old backup or none at all. Manual backups work best as a supplement to automatic schedules, a “backup before major action” trigger before you update plugins, redesign your site, or migrate hosting, rather than as your primary backup strategy.

Automatic Backups: Set and Forget

Automatic backups run on a predetermined schedule without requiring human intervention or decision-making. Once the initial backup is complete, we automatically schedule your content for backup every 24 hours, and you can adjust the frequency per website in the control panel whenever your needs change. This consistency is the biggest advantage: you never miss a backup because you forgot, got distracted, or had competing priorities.

Automated backups are reliably consistent. They run at the same time every day (or hour, or on whatever schedule you’ve set); they don’t depend on you remembering or being available, and you can monitor their success remotely without manual intervention. The trade-off is less direct moment-to-moment control; you’re not choosing the exact second a backup starts, the system is, but for most sites, this is a net gain because consistency matters far more than picking the perfect time.

Backup Retention and Storage

How long you keep backups available for restore depends on your RPO, your storage budget, and potentially regulatory requirements specific to your industry or location. Retention policies answer a critical question: if disaster strikes today, how far back do I need to restore?

How Long Backups Should Be Retained

Most websites keep backups for 30 to 90 days, a window that works well for most use cases. With 90-day retention, you can restore your site to the state of any day with a successful backup from the last 90 days. A 30-day retention window is sufficient for most situations: if your site breaks today, you likely have a backup from the last month that works. A 90-day window provides significantly more buffer for slower-moving issues, like discovering malware infections weeks after they happened or finding corrupted data that wasn’t immediately noticed.

Some businesses keep longer retention, 6 months or a year, for compliance reasons or to protect against sophisticated attacks that go undetected for weeks before causing visible damage. Others keep shorter retention, 7 to 14 days, if storage is limited and fresh backups are more important than historical depth. Your retention window should reflect your business risk profile: how quickly do you typically notice problems, and how far back would you need to go to find a clean, working version of your site?

Storage Space and Incremental Backups

Retention length directly affects storage requirements and costs. Daily full backups for 90 days means you need storage space for 90 complete copies of your site. This gets expensive quickly for large sites with extensive media libraries, customer databases, or transaction histories. Incremental backups speed up the process and save a ton of storage space, since they back up only new or changed files since the last backup.

Incremental backups between full backups dramatically reduce storage needs. A policy of weekly full backups plus daily incremental backups across a 90-day retention window uses a fraction of the storage that 90 full backups would require. This combination is standard practice for managed backup services because it balances recovery capability with storage efficiency.

Backup Before Major Changes

One of the most effective backup practices isn’t about the regular schedule; it’s about timing: always back up immediately before making changes that could potentially break your site. This proactive approach has saved countless sites from extended downtime and data loss.

Triggers for Manual Backups

Before updating any plugins or themes, back up your site. Before changing your hosting provider or migrating your site to new infrastructure, back up your site. Before installing a new plugin, especially on a live production site, back up your site. Before making major configuration changes to your database, application settings, or hosting, back up. Before a team member makes changes they’re unsure about, back up. These ad-hoc backups serve as insurance: if an update breaks something or a configuration change goes wrong, you have a known-good backup from moments before the problem happened.

The restore window is measured in hours or minutes rather than days, and often you can restore just the affected files or database tables rather than the entire site. You minimize downtime, confirm exactly what changed to cause the problem, and minimize the need for manual troubleshooting. If the change works perfectly, you still have a backup from before the change, which is valuable for later comparison or for rapid rollback if issues emerge days or weeks later.

Best Practice: Backup + Test + Update

The safest approach is to back up, verify that the backup is accessible and works (don’t just trust that it exists; actually test it), then proceed with your change. If something goes wrong, you restore from that pre-change backup and lose nothing but time. If everything works perfectly, you’ve still got a known-good backup from before the change. Niya Digital’s team has found that sites using managed, automated backups are far more likely to test and restore them when needed than those managing backups manually. This “backup before every significant change” practice takes minutes but prevents hours of crisis recovery and data reconstruction.

Choosing a Managed Backup Service

At a certain point, managing backups yourself becomes a liability rather than an asset. Scheduled backups might get forgotten despite your best intentions. Testing might never happen because it doesn’t feel urgent until you actually need to restore. Restore might fail when you need it because the backup format is incompatible with new hosting infrastructure, the backup is stored in an inaccessible location when your primary server fails, or credentials have changed.

Why Managed Backups Reduce Risk

A managed backup service removes this uncertainty entirely. The provider handles scheduling, storage, testing, and restoration; you configure it once, and it works reliably without further intervention. Site Backup offers instant restoration of lost or corrupted files with a single click, with all managed through a simple management panel, so you don’t need specialized technical knowledge or training to restore if needed. The interface is straightforward enough that even non-technical site owners can perform a restore during an emergency.

Managed backup services also abstract away the complexity of backup chains, retention policies, and storage management. You choose a frequency and retention window, and the service handles the rest automatically. If your RTO requires fast restore, the service has tested restore procedures and knows exactly how long recovery typically takes. If compliance requirements demand audit trails and logging, the service maintains comprehensive logs of all backup and restore activity. For most sites, especially those generating revenue or storing customer data, the value a managed backup service provides far exceeds the cost.

Finding the Right Fit

When choosing a managed backup service, verify three critical things: that it supports your site’s type and platform (WordPress, custom code, e-commerce, etc.), that the backup frequency options match your RPO requirements, and that the restore time aligns with your RTO. Ask the provider for a restore test before committing; reputable providers will restore a test file or a test version of your site to prove it works.

Niya Digital’s Website Backup Service offers flexible scheduling backed by CodeGuard (GoDaddy Website Backup)’s infrastructure, geographically distributed off-site storage for disaster protection, and hands-on restore support during an incident. Whether you’re a small business managing your first backup strategy or an agency responsible for dozens of client sites, the service adapts to your needs.

Frequently Asked Questions

How often should a small business website back up?

A: A small business website that’s updated regularly should back up daily. If your site generates revenue, stores customer data, or is updated more than once a week, daily backups protect against the cost of even a few hours of downtime or data loss. If your site changes infrequently (updated monthly or less), weekly backups may be sufficient, but always add ad-hoc backups before updates or major changes for extra safety.

What’s the difference between backup frequency and backup retention?

A: Backup frequency is how often backups are taken, daily, weekly, or hourly. Backup retention is how long backups are stored: 30 days, 90 days, 1 year, or longer. A site might have daily backups with 90-day retention, meaning a new backup runs every day and all backups from the last 90 days are available for restore. You need both: appropriate frequency to limit data loss, and appropriate retention in case you need to go back further.

Can I use my hosting provider’s backups?

A: Hosting provider backups are better than nothing, but they often have limitations. Backups may only run weekly; they’re stored on the same servers as your site (so server failure can wipe both), and you may not control retention policies. An independent, off-site backup service provides better protection because it stores backups separately and lets you control frequency and retention policies.

How do I know if my backup actually works?

A: Test it. Restore a file or an entire backup to a test environment, then verify the site functions correctly after restore. If the backup restores cleanly and your site runs properly, your backup works. If you get errors, the backup is incomplete or corrupted, which you’d much rather discover during a test than during an actual crisis when you’re under pressure to restore immediately.

Should I back up every hour?

A: Hourly backups are necessary only for sites with mission-critical operations or high transaction volume, e-commerce sites, financial services, and SaaS platforms. For most other sites, daily backups strike the right balance between protection and server load. Hourly backups also increase storage requirements significantly, so pair them with incremental backup methodology to keep overhead manageable.

What if I find malware after my last backup was taken?

A: If your backup was taken before the malware infection, restore to that point, and your site is clean. If the malware is present in all available backups, you’ll need to clean it from your live site and take a new backup afterward. This is why regular backup testing matters: you want to catch infections before they spread to all your backup copies, and why testing includes malware scanning.

Do I need both full and incremental backups?

A: For most sites, yes. Weekly full backups provide a reliable baseline and simplify restore if needed. Daily incremental backups reduce storage and backup time. Together, they offer speed and reliability. Small sites with minimal changes can get by with full backups only, but for active sites, the combination is standard practice and recommended.

How long does a website restore typically take?

A: It depends on site size and complexity. A small site might restore in 15 minutes; a large e-commerce site with a massive database might take an hour or more. That is why testing your restore ahead of time matters: you’ll know exactly how long to wait and can set customer expectations accordingly. One-click restore systems can significantly reduce hands-on time.

What’s an RTO and RPO, and why do they matter?

A: RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the maximum acceptable downtime; RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is the maximum acceptable data loss, measured in time. They’re not technical specs; they’re business decisions. Knowing your RTO and RPO tells you exactly how often to back up and how quickly you need to restore, so you’re not guessing at backup strategy.

Should I back up to the cloud or to physical media?

A: Cloud backups (stored with an off-site provider) are recommended for most sites. They’re automatically redundant, geographically dispersed, and accessible from anywhere. Physical media (external drives, tapes) is an older approach requiring manual management. Most modern backup services use cloud storage, which is more reliable and requires less hands-on management.

What backup frequency do I need for WordPress?

A: Daily backups are standard for WordPress sites. If your WordPress site handles e-commerce, memberships, or other business operations, daily or more frequent backups are essential. If it’s a personal blog with infrequent updates, weekly backups may suffice. Always back up immediately before updating plugins, themes, or WordPress core.

Can I rely on my database host’s backups?

A: Database hosts (managed cloud databases) often provide backups, but they’re not a complete replacement for full-site backups. Database backups protect your data but not your site files, themes, plugins, or configuration. A full-site backup includes everything needed to restore your entire site.

How do I choose between daily and hourly backups?

A: Choose daily backups for most sites; they’re frequent enough to protect against most data loss scenarios while avoiding excessive server load. Choose hourly or more frequent backups only if your site processes revenue transactions, stores sensitive customer data, or runs mission-critical services. Justify the cost of additional backup overhead against the cost of potential data loss.

Is daily backup too much or too little?

A: For most business websites, daily backup strikes the right balance. It’s frequent enough to minimize data loss to an acceptable window, but not so frequent that it strains hosting resources. Sites updated rarely (small business sites, portfolios) can get by with weekly. Sites processing transactions hourly should use hourly or continuous backups.

What happens if my backup provider goes out of business?

A: Choose a provider that gives you access to download your full backups at any time. Reputable backup services ensure you can export and download all your backups whenever you want, so you’re never dependent on their continued operation. Always verify this capability before signing up.

Glossary

• Automated Backup: A backup that runs on a defined schedule without manual intervention, typically daily, weekly, or hourly. See also scheduled backup.
• Backup Retention: How long backups are kept available for restore. A 90-day retention means backups from the last 90 days are accessible; older backups are deleted to manage storage.
• Database Backup: A backup of your site’s database (dynamic content like posts, customer records, settings, comments) as opposed to file backups. Most complete site backups include both database and files.
• Full Backup: A complete copy of all site files, folders, and database at a single point in time. Larger and slower to create than incremental backups, but simpler to restore.
• Incremental Backup: A backup that captures only changes made since the last backup. Faster and leaner than full backups but requires the prior backup in the chain to restore completely.
• Off-Site Backup Storage: Backup data stored on servers physically separate from your hosting infrastructure. Essential for disaster recovery; if your hosting data center fails, off-site backups remain accessible.
• One-Click Restore: A user-friendly restoration process that requires minimal steps to restore your site from a backup, typically with a single click in a control panel.
• Recovery Point Objective (RPO): The maximum acceptable amount of data loss, measured in time. An RPO of 1 hour means backups must run at least hourly.
• Recovery Time Objective (RTO): The maximum acceptable downtime for your site after a failure. An RTO of 2 hours means your site must be restored within 2 hours.