--- title: RTO Calculator description: Axcient's Recovery Time & Downtime Cost Calculator (RTO) focuses on simple metrics that start a general calculation of what an outage and recovery timing could mean to your clients. The results of this calculator are meant to help estimate loss and does not calculate actual loss. image: https://info.axcient.com/hubfs/rto-calculator.png --- [![Axcient](https://info.axcient.com/hubfs/Axcient_December2018/logo_main.png)](https://axcient.com/) ## x360Recover Direct-to-Cloud (D2C) BCDR # Recovery Time Objective Calculator Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is a key metric informing an MSP’s BCDR solution choice and deployment decisions. [Knowing how much downtime will cost](https://axcient.com/white-papers/calculating-the-cost-of-bcdr-downtime-in-your-business/?utm_medium=Landing%20Page&utm_source=RTO%20Calculator&utm_campaign=RTO%20Calculator&utm_content=Downtime%20Cost%20WP) an organization is critical for understanding what kind of investment in BCDR makes sense for your client’s business.      ## Important Best Practices - If your estimated RTO above is more than 2 hours, use a Local Cache or local appliance to ensure fast recovery if your customer loses a server. - The shorter RTO an MSP can deliver using Axcient’s patented Local Cache feature in their x360Recover D2C deployments. - Local Cache enables x360Recover D2C to deliver fast RTO for our partners; it is an “expediter” and allows you to virtualize via an on-premise Hyper-V deployment. - The Recovery Center software is optimized for recovery from a Local Cache or an appliance only. Use FTPS for fast data recovery from the cloud. - Recovering from a Local Cache requires a local machine with at least 300 MB of RAM per TB of data stored in the local cache (max 10 TB per cache). - While cloud virtualization in the Axcient cloud takes just a few minutes, failing over to the cloud also requires failing back and downloading the data (subject to the calculated speeds). - A physical shipment of data from the cloud is an available paid service, but can take hours or days to copy the data to the physical disk, encrypt it, and ship via the next flight out. - Learn more about RTO and get step-by-step instructions on getting the most out of this calculator by visiting our [RTO Calculator Knowledgebase page](https://help.axcient.com/5-recover-with-x360recover/recovery-time-objective-rto-calculator). ## Enter Your Recovery Data: ![review-quote](https://info.axcient.com/hubfs/review-quote.png) "Axcient is very quick to set up and maintain. We have tested the BDR in a sandbox environment and have been pleasantly surprised with the performance. The REAL test happened when our client's server crashed unexpectedly. Within 20 minutes the customer was rolling as if nothing happened." ### Jeremy B. ## Try Axcient Today and Protect Everything Take advantage of Axcient’s patented Chain-free, AutoVerify, VirtualOffice, and AirGap technology to ensure data is backed up securely and protected from attackers and ransomware using x360Recover with Appliance or Direct-to-Cloud (D2C). [Request a Price Quote Today](https://info.axcient.com/x360recover-quote-request) *\*An enhanced performance FTPS client uses multiple TCP connections to download a single file. This feature is often called "segmented" or "multi-segment" parallel download. FTPS clients known to support it are CuteFTP Pro or LFTP (Linux or WSL) (you also have to specifically enable multi-segment downloads). For LFTP, use the pget command with -n option, for example: queue pget -n 8 filename.vmdk            * *\*\*Does not include drive shipment time or cost            * ### AXCIENT 707 17th St. Suite 3900 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 800-352-0248 Phone: 720-204-4500 Fax: 720-204-4500 ###### Connect With Us Copyright Axcient © 2024 All rights reserved. [Privacy Policy](https://axcient.com/privacy-policy/) | [Legal Notices](https://axcient.com/legal-notices/) | [Terms and Conditions](https://axcient.com/terms-and-conditions/) Axcient's x360 Platform is the proven business continuity and disaster recovery solution for Managed Service Providers (MSPs).