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🔄 RPO / RTO & cost-of-downtime calculator

Quantify the cost of an outage and plan recovery. Enter your revenue and any productivity or SLA-penalty add-ons to compute the cost of downtime at several durations, set per-system RTO (max tolerable downtime) and RPO (max tolerable data-loss window) targets against current capability to flag recovery gaps, and check your backups against the 3-2-1 rule. Aligned to BCDR / ISO 22301. Word + CSV.

Organisation & revenue
Used with operating hours to derive revenue per hour.
8760 = 24×7; ~2080 = single shift, 5 days.
Downtime cost add-ons (optional)
Wages paid while staff cannot work (loaded labour cost).
Contractual penalties or regulatory fines per hour down.
Fixed cost to restore per incident (added once, not per hour).
Critical systems — RTO & RPO targets vs capability

For each system enter the target RTO (max tolerable downtime) and RPO (max tolerable data loss), and your current capability (how fast you can actually recover, and your backup interval = the most data you could lose). A gap is flagged when capability is worse than the target. All times are in hours.

Backup strategy — 3-2-1 rule check
Cost & recovery summary

🔄 This calculator estimates downtime cost and helps you document RTO (recovery time objective — max tolerable downtime) and RPO (recovery point objective — max tolerable data-loss window) targets for backup / disaster-recovery planning, aligned to ISO 22301 business continuity and the 3-2-1 backup rule (3 copies, 2 media types, 1 offsite — ideally also 1 immutable/air-gapped). Cost figures are planning estimates from the inputs you provide, not a guaranteed loss; calculations run entirely in your browser and nothing is transmitted. Validate every RTO/RPO against a documented Business Impact Analysis and your own contracts, and have a competent person review the plan.