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title: "Step 6. Specify Target RTO and RPO"
description: "At the Recovery Objectives step of the wizard, define your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for the plan: The RPO defines the maximum acceptable period of data loss."
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# Step 6. Specify Target RTO and RPO

At the **Recovery Objectives** step of the wizard, define your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for the plan:

- The **RPO** defines the maximum acceptable period of data loss.
- The **RTO** represents the amount of time it should take to recover from an incident.

RTO and RPO performance will be recorded in the [Plan Readiness Check](running_readiness_check.md), [Plan Execution](viewing_plan_execution_history.md), [Plan Audit](viewing_audit_report.md) and [DataLab Test](viewing_test_execution_history.md) reports, and you will be able to track the achieved RTO and RPO objectives for each plan on the [Home Page Dashboard](home_dashboard.md).

[![Creating Restore Plan](images/creating_rp_rto_rpo.png "Creating Restore Plan")](images/creating_rp_rto_rpo.png){.toggle scale=65}