Backup & Disaster Recovery Service

Backup and disaster recovery services ensure businesses can recover from data loss, ransomware, hardware failure, or disasters.

You provide backup solutions, disaster recovery planning, recovery testing, compliance documentation, and potentially emergency recovery services.

You might focus on specific platforms (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, databases), industries with compliance needs (healthcare, finance), or comprehensive DR planning.

Success requires understanding backup technologies and strategies, cloud storage and replication, compliance requirements, and business continuity planning.

Pricing includes monthly managed backup service ($100-1,000+ depending on data volume), disaster recovery planning projects ($2,000-15,000), recovery testing services, emergency recovery fees, or compliance documentation.

Projects involve assessing backup needs and compliance requirements, designing backup and recovery strategy, implementing automated backup systems, disaster recovery planning and documentation, recovery testing and validation, training staff on recovery procedures, and potentially emergency recovery support.

Startup costs include backup software licenses, cloud storage accounts, compliance certifications if targeting regulated industries, testing infrastructure, and marketing totaling $3,000-12,000.

Building client base involves targeting industries with compliance needs, partnerships with IT consultants and MSPs, content marketing about ransomware and data loss, cold outreach after public company breaches (opportunistic but effective), and demonstrating expertise through certifications.

Revenue comes from monthly managed backup fees, DR planning projects, recovery testing services, emergency recovery fees (premium rates), and potentially compliance consulting.

Operating costs include cloud storage (significant with scale), backup software licenses, monitoring and alerting tools, testing infrastructure, certifications and compliance, and marketing.

Challenges include selling disaster recovery before disaster happens (undervalued until needed), storage costs scale with customer data, competing with cloud backup providers, recovery testing time-intensive, and responsibility during actual disasters.

Success requires automated, reliable backup systems, clear compliance documentation, regular recovery testing proving backups work, fast emergency recovery response, and potentially specializing in regulated industries or specific platforms.

Businesses increasingly understand backup and DR criticality, especially with ransomware threats.