RTO Reality: Why Your Backups Mean Nothing Without a Recovery Drill
Backups are your insurance premium; recovery is cashing the claim. After 15+ years in production war rooms—from Nutanix HCI clusters to hybrid cloud migrations—I’ve watched “green” backup dashboards lie spectacularly. The bits sit safe on disk, but real Recovery Time Objective (RTO) crumbles under hydration speeds, API throttling, or the engineer with the encryption keys…