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Maximum Acceptable Outage (Definition)The Maximum Acceptable Outage (MAO) is the maximum amount of time a system can be unavailable before its loss will compromise the organization's objectives or survival. See Also: Maximum Tolerable Downtime. How far away should a hot site or mirror site be?
A question that is often asked when designing a disaster recovery plan is how far away a hot site or mirror site should be. Is there a simple answer? (More...)
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