Backup and Disaster Recovery for Dutch SMEs: What You Need and What It Costs (2026)

In short: for a small or mid-size business, backup protects against mistakes and ransomware, while disaster recovery keeps the company running if a whole data center goes down. At OMC Cloud, daily backup keeps 14 restore points (from $4 per month), and disaster recovery starts the servers in another location within 30 minutes with near-zero data loss (from $99 per month).

Backup and disaster recovery are not the same

• Backup: regular copies of your data to go back after a deleted file, a failed update or a ransomware attack. Restoring takes time and brings data back to the last copy.
• Disaster recovery (DR): continuous replication of the servers to a second data center, ready to start if the main site fails. It is measured by two numbers: RTO (how fast you are back) and RPO (how much data is lost).

What an SME needs

• Company website or test server: daily backup is usually enough.
• Accounting, online shop, file server: daily backup plus a copy in another location; consider DR if a day of downtime costs more than the service.
• Critical systems (orders, production, customer service): disaster recovery with an RTO in minutes and near-zero RPO.

GDPR and data location

GDPR requires the ability to restore the availability of and access to personal data in a timely manner after an incident (Article 32). With Amsterdam as the main site and a second EU data center for DR, data and copies stay in the EU.

How it works at OMC Cloud

• Cloud Backup: automatic daily incremental backups, 14 restore points, geo-redundant storage and one-click restore. From $4 per month.
• Disaster recovery: continuous block-level replication to a geographically separate site, RTO up to 30 minutes, near-zero RPO, automatic failover and DR drills that don't affect production. From $99 per month.
• Servers with a 99.95% uptime SLA, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017 and SOC 2 Type II certifications, 24/7 human support in English.

Frequently asked questions

How often is a backup made?
Every day, automatically and incrementally. You can go back to any of the 14 restore points.

How fast am I running again with disaster recovery?
Within 30 minutes for a full restart of the servers in the recovery site, with near-zero data loss thanks to continuous replication.

Can I test disaster recovery without stopping the business?
Yes, DR drills run without touching the production servers.

Does a backup protect against ransomware?
It helps: with several restore points you can go back to a copy from before the attack. Securing access and passwords and keeping systems updated still matters.

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