Mean Time To Recovery
<specification> (MTTR) The average time that a device will take to
recover from a non-terminal failure. Examples of such devices range from
self-resetting fuses (where the MTTR would be very short, probably seconds), up
to whole systems which have to be replaced.
The MTTR would usually be part of a maintenance contract, where the user would
pay more for a system whose MTTR was 24 hours, than for one of, say, 7 days.
This means the supplier is guaranteeing to have the system up and running again
within 24 hours (or 7 days) of being notified of the failure.
Some devices have a MTTR of zero, which means that they have redundant
components which can take over the instant the primary one fails, see RAID for
example.
See also Mean Time Between Failures.
(1998-05-01)
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