(Recovery Point Objective) maximum amount of data lost. This technical parameter is the time interval between the last data version available and the moment this was lost. It is more commonly referred to as "data freshness". If this interval is zero then no data is lost.
(Recovery Time Objective) maximum permissible interruption. This technical parameter is the time interval between the moment the data is lost and that when these are available again.
voluntarily triggered process which consists of routing data from a secondary storage media to a primary storage. If the destination of the data to be restored is different from the original server, the restoration is said to be cross-restoration.