Backup & Disaster Recovery

Backup is not an IT topic.
It’s a board-level insurance decision.

Protect your business against downtime, ransomware, and audit risk.

Data is the heartbeat of your business — and losing it can mean losing everything. From ransomware and accidental deletion to natural disasters and cloud outages, threats to your business continuity are everywhere. The question isn’t if something will happen — it’s when.

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Unverbindliches Erstgespräch mit einem Transition Architect vereinbaren.

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Our Clients:

“Sysfacts hat uns in einer kritischen Situation den Betrieb gerettet – schnell, kontrolliert und ohne Ausfallzeit.”

Sasha Bruckhoff, Geschäftsführer START NRW GmbH

Most companies don’t have Backup & DR. They have hope. Why does it matter?

Without clearly defined recovery targets and regularly tested recovery, even a short disruption can escalate into lost revenue, operational standstill, audit exposure, and reputational damage.

Every company depends on digital systems. What many underestimate is how fast an outage turns into a business crisis.

Strong data recovery strategy ensures:

Data protection

Your most critical data isn’t just stored. It’s protected, verifiable, and recoverable when it matters, not just when systems say “backup completed”.

Business Continuity

Work doesn’t stop when technology fails. Your people keep moving, decisions continue, and the business stays in control instead of improvising under pressure.

Customer trust

Reliability is invisible until it’s missing. Proven recoverability shows clients and partners that your business is built to withstand disruption.

Predictable recovery

Downtime isn’t a surprise anymore. Recovery happens within clearly defined, management-approved timeframes that protect revenue and operations.

Regulatory confidence

When auditors or authorities ask, you don’t explain. You provide. Documentation, evidence, and standards are ready to hand over without stress.

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The real cost of downtime.

Downtime is never just technical. It creates financial loss, operational paralysis, and management risk.

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1

How much downtime is acceptable?

The average SMB loses €8,000–€10,000 per hour of downtime.

2

What data loss would cost the company?

Prolonged data loss puts your business at risk. For many companies, a 10-day outage can lead to bankruptcy.

3

What level of protection is needed?

This is your recovery time. The faster the recovery, the more structured and tested the setup must be.

A backup and data recovery strategy isn’t a luxury. It’s a business essential that turns disruption into a controlled, manageable event.

An all-inclusive Backup & DR assurance package. Built for audits, insurers, and executives.

Sysfacts Assurance turns Backup & DR into a reliable corporate insurance policy: governance-driven, audit-ready by design, technically implemented, and continuously validated.

Monitoring & alerting across the Backup/DR chain

Without clearly defined recovery targets and regularly tested recovery, even a short disruption can escalate into lost revenue, operational standstill, audit exposure, and reputational damage.

Recovery tests per plan + evidence (protocol/certificate)

Without clearly defined recovery targets and regularly tested recovery, even a short disruption can escalate into lost revenue, operational standstill, audit exposure, and reputational damage.

Findings-to-remediation management

Without clearly defined recovery targets and regularly tested recovery, even a short disruption can escalate into lost revenue, operational standstill, audit exposure, and reputational damage.

Monthly reporting (KPIs, status, risks, action tracking)

Without clearly defined recovery targets and regularly tested recovery, even a short disruption can escalate into lost revenue, operational standstill, audit exposure, and reputational damage.

Offsite storage / immutability options (architecture-dependent)

Without clearly defined recovery targets and regularly tested recovery, even a short disruption can escalate into lost revenue, operational standstill, audit exposure, and reputational damage.

Fully managed backup operations (run & optimize)

Without clearly defined recovery targets and regularly tested recovery, even a short disruption can escalate into lost revenue, operational standstill, audit exposure, and reputational damage.

Example of why this is critical:

If you have an automated high-bay warehouse, a backup from midnight today won't be of much use to you at 8 p.m. today because so many movements have taken place in the warehouse in the meantime that the 20-hour-old data is worthless. You have to look at this from a business perspective and “snatch” it away from IT.

The Sysfacts Assurance Approach

A fixed, standardized path from discovery to strategy to implementation, followed by ongoing assurance operations. Standardized in method and deliverables—scalable via scope, tiering, data volume, and service level.

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Assurance Discovery

Identify business requirements, risk appetite, criticality, and target objectives.

Criticality and dependency overview

Tier-based RPO/RTO target matrix

Gap analysis / quick wins

Roadmap & budget boundaries

2

Assurance Blueprint

Audit-proof strategy as an executive/management artifact.

DR strategy document

Governance & accountability model incl. escalation

Runbook structure + initial runbooks (top services)

Test & evidence plan (Evidence Pack)

3

Assurance Build

Implement the target architecture incl. technical validation.

Implementation (backup/offsite/monitoring/restore processes)

Initial recovery validation (protocols)

Operational handover, operating documentation

4

Assurance Managed

Continuous assurance, evidence, and ongoing updates.

Monthly Backup & DR report

Restore tests incl. certificates/protocols

Quarterly Assurance Review Workshop

Continuous updates of concepts and documents

Data is the heartbeat of your business — and losing it can mean losing everything. From ransomware and accidental deletion to natural disasters and cloud outages, threats to your business continuity are everywhere. The question isn’t if something will happen — it’s when.

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Why CFOs and legal teams
choose Sysfacts Assurance

Sysfacts Assurance gives CFOs and legal teams something rare in Backup & DR: clear accountability, audit-ready evidence, and proven recoverability that stands up to insurers and authorities.

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KPIs and Evidence (Assurance Proof)

Operational KPIs (Excerpt)

Sysfacts Assurance tracks a focused set of KPIs to continuously prove recoverability and readiness. These cover backup reliability, recovery test coverage by tier, documentation freshness, failure detection speed, and the resolution of identified issues, giving management a clear view of operational risk at all times.

Evidence Pack (Proof)

The Evidence Pack provides audit-ready proof of recoverability, including restore test results, test certificates, a versioned DR strategy with decision logs, and a complete action history. It can be handed directly to auditors, insurers, or authorities without additional explanation.

Clear liability and accountability

Sysfacts Assurance shifts Backup & DR from an IT task to a management-approved risk decision, creating defensible accountability for executives and legal teams.

Predictable business risk

Risk-based tiering connects recovery requirements with economic impact, allowing management to define how much protection is needed and what it is worth.

How it works?

Sysfacts Assurance gives CFOs and legal teams something rare in Backup & DR: clear accountability, audit-ready evidence, and proven recoverability that stands up to insurers and authorities.

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Assurance Discovery

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Assurance Workshop

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Assurance Retainer

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Assurance Essential

This is your recovery time. The faster the recovery, the more structured and tested the setup must be.

Assurance Essential

This is your recovery time. The faster the recovery, the more structured and tested the setup must be.

Assurance Essential

This is your recovery time. The faster the recovery, the more structured and tested the setup must be.

Certified Process
Over 100 successful transitions
Over 100 successful transitions
Especially for German SMEs with critical infrastructure.

We guarantee money-back guarantee

Proven impact from Sysfacts Assurance

A fixed, standardized path from discovery to strategy to implementation, followed by ongoing assurance operations. Standardized in method and deliverables—scalable via scope, tiering, data volume, and service level.

+95%

Projects without critical failures.

70%

Risk reduction within three months.

±15%

Budget accuracy across 30+ projects

NPS > 80

Customer satisfaction score

FAQs

Things you might be asking.

How is this different from just buying cloud backup?

Cloud backup is a tool. Sysfacts Assurance is a governance program that includes strategy, implementation, evidence, and continuous validation. You get the proof—not just the data.

Do we need this if we already have a backup vendor?

Most companies do. They have backup running, but unclear targets, no recent test results, and no governance. We bring the strategy and proof layer on top.

What if we're already "compliant"?

Compliance means you pass an audit today. Assurance means you stay compliant as threats and laws change. We continuously update your strategy and documentation.

How long does implementation take?

Depends on scope. Usually 6–12 weeks from strategy approval to live operations. Then you're on the retainer with no end date.

Can you guarantee recovery within X hours?

RTO/RPO guarantees depend on your tier, data volume, and infrastructure. We set realistic targets with your business, validate them monthly, and back them with evidence.

What if you become unavailable?

We deliver a complete, versioned documentation package. You have all runbooks, architectures, and procedures. You can transition to another vendor or operate independently. Liability and money-back guarantee included.

Does this replace IT's role?

No. IT still owns implementation and operations. We bring the governance and evidence layer. The business defines risk and targets. IT executes. We moderate and prove.

How often are we tested?

Part of the retainer. Restore tests happen monthly (for key systems) or quarterly (for lower tiers). Every test produces a certificate you can show auditors.

Schedule free consultation with our transition experts.

Sysfacts Assurance gives CFOs and legal teams something rare in Backup & DR: clear accountability, audit-ready evidence, and proven recoverability that stands up to insurers and authorities.