Backup and Disaster Recovery for German 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 restarts 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 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.
• Inventory software, 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 Frankfurt 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 data backed up?
Every day, automatically and incrementally. You can return to any of the 14 restore points.

How fast am I back online 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 disrupting the business?
Yes, DR drills run without touching the production servers.

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

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