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3 questions in RTO & RPO.

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A collaborative workspace product must define RTO and RPO. The product team says "we can never lose a user's work". What does that requirement actually mean, and what does it cost?

A stakeholder asks for zero RPO across the estate. What does that cost and what would you propose instead?

In April 2022 a maintenance script at Atlassian used the wrong identifiers and deleted sites belonging to about 775 customers. Restoration took up to about two weeks for some of them, even though backups existed and were working. What property of the recovery design accounts for that gap?