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title: What is the RTO / RPO for Zitadel Cloud?
description: Our backup strategy executes daily full backups and differential backups on much higher frequency. In a disaster recovery scenario, our goal is to guarantee a recovery point objective (RPO) of 1h, and a higher but similar recovery time objective (RTO). Under normal operations, RPO and RTO goals are below 1 minute.
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May 5, 2026

# What is the RTO / RPO for Zitadel Cloud?

## Backup Strategie and Disaster Recovery of Zitadel Cloud

Our backup strategy executes daily full backups and differential backups on much higher frequency.

In a disaster recovery scenario, our goal is to guarantee a recovery point objective (RPO) of 1h, and a higher but similar recovery time objective (RTO). Under normal operations, RPO and RTO goals are below 1 minute.

If you have different requirements we provide you with a flexible approach to back up, restore, and transfer data (f.e. to a self-hosted setup) through our APIs. Please consult the [migration guides](https://zitadel.com/docs/guides/migrate/introduction) for more information.

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