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When we talk about data backup and restore , we need to talk about two essential terms :

• Recovery Point Objective ( RPO )

• Recovery Time Objective ( RTO )

Knowing how much data loss is tolerable for business impact ( RPO ) and the maximum amount of time your business can tolerate to be offline ( RTO ) is important . It defines how you build your backup strategy , how frequently the backup jobs will run and what type of backup is required .

This recovery objectives don ’ t follow a general rule .

Download whitepaper here Each company has other requirements for their business which defines their recovery objectives . If you want to read about RPO and RTO , our blog post “ Why do recovery time and recovery point objectives matter ?” explains more about RPO and RTO and how to gather the information required to define the values for your environment . This white paper will show you best practices to help you to achieve and optimize your personal recovery objectives .

No . 1 : Back up the right data the right way

Veeam ® Backup and Replication™ can protect several types of source data from different hypervisors , physical machines , cloud environment , SaaS offerings and different types of applications . Before starting with the implementation , you need to think about the data you need to protect . The first step is to collect the characteristics of the data you want to protect . Do you need to protect applications ? What sort of hypervisor is in use ? How important is the data on this server for the business ? What ’ s your expected RPO / RTO for each system ? As soon as we are familiar with the production data , we can choose the right type of backup job to protect the data . We can choose from different types :

• VM-based backup

• Agent-based backup

• Enterprise application plug-ins

• NAS backups

• ( Continuous ) replication and Continuous Data Protection ( CDP )

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