1. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed in a data processing system, causes the data processing system to: receive a request to project a recovery time for a data asset that uses a repository; determine if there are one or more existing recovery times for other data assets and other repositories that have characteristics similar to the data asset and the repository of the request; and responsive to an existence of the one or more existing recovery times, project the recovery time for the data asset using the one or more existing recovery times.