RPO and RTO are business promises — treat them that way
Recovery objectives are commitments to customers, regulators and the board — not technical settings buried in a console.
Recovery Point Objective (how much data you can afford to lose) and Recovery Time Objective (how long a service can be down) are usually written down as numbers in a console or a contract. Treated only that way, they drift — quietly out of date, quietly disconnected from what the business actually needs.
They are commitments to customers, regulators and the board about how much data can be lost and how long a service can be down. That is why every DeeAROps engagement starts from the Business Impact Analysis, not the technology: what can this specific service not afford to lose, and for how long can it be unavailable before the damage is disproportionate to the cost of protecting it?
That question, answered service by service, is what turns a generic recovery target into one the board, customers and regulators can actually rely on — documented, auditable and testable, not a number nobody remembers agreeing to.