SAP Service · Business continuity · DRP

Disaster Recovery Plan for SAP

We design and implement your Disaster Recovery Plan for SAP and critical systems: if your primary datacenter goes down, your business processes keep running — with recovery times and data loss under control.

What's at stake

What can leave your business in the dark.

Physical

Natural disasters

Earthquakes, hurricanes and floods that leave your primary datacenter inaccessible beyond recovery.

Cyber

Cyberattacks

Ransomware and viruses that encrypt or destroy your data and halt operations without warning.

Technical

HW and SW failures

Hardware and software outages that compromise the availability of your SAP systems and business continuity.

Recovery objective
RTO · RPO

We define how long recovery may take and how much data you can afford to lose.

Business continuityProtected dataPeriodic testing
A well-executed Disaster Recovery strategy should let your company operate with few or no disruptions in a disaster scenario — aiming for data loss close to zero.
Disaster Recovery models

Balance recovery and cost.

Mirror
Identical datacenter

Contingency site the same size as production.

  • Very low RTO
  • Data loss close to zero
  • Higher fixed cost
Critical 24×7 operation?
Multi-region
Geographic distribution

Contingency site far from the disaster zone, even at the country level.

  • Protection against a regional catastrophe
  • Leverages the cloud across several continents
Country or regional risk?
Architecture

Your operation, replicated and ready.

We use the public cloud to strengthen your DR strategy: high availability, cost flexibility and a contingency site ready to bring up your critical services.

4
SAP application and critical systems
Business processes that cannot stop.
App
3
Data and databases
Replicated with the RPO your business defines.
Data
2
Primary datacenter
Your production site, on-premise or in the cloud.
1
Contingency site in the cloud
Ready to bring up operations when the primary goes down.
DR
How we implement it

A proven method, in four stages.

01

Risk analysis

We study your business processes and infrastructure to define what to protect and with what priority.

02

Planning

We define stages, responsibilities and the technical teams and vendors involved.

03

Implementation

We set up the DR solution and run controlled tests and training exercises.

04

Periodic testing

We validate that data, applications, infrastructure and procedures meet the SLAs and the audit.

The before and after

Without a DRP vs. with Novis.

In a disaster Without a DRP With Novis
Continuity Operation stopped for an indefinite time Critical services brought up at the contingency site
Data loss Unpredictable Bounded to the agreed RPO RPO
Recovery time However long it takes to rebuild everything Defined and measured RTO
Contingency cost Mirror infrastructure always on Reduced site that scales only on contingency
Confidence Never been tested Periodic testing and auditable results
Frequently asked questions

What we get asked most.

What is a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)?
It's the procedure that brings your critical systems back up after a disaster that leaves the primary datacenter beyond recovery. It defines what is protected, how it is recovered and in how much time, to ensure business continuity.
What do RTO and RPO mean?
The RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the target time to recover operations; the RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is how much data —in minutes or hours— you can afford to lose. Both define the design and the cost of your DR solution.
Do I need a datacenter identical to production?
Not necessarily. You can have a smaller contingency site that scales only when a disaster strikes, with considerable savings; or a mirror one if you require near-immediate recovery. We define it based on your RTO and RPO.
Is a DRP the same as a backup?
No. A backup keeps copies of your data; a DRP is the complete plan to get back to operating —infrastructure, data, procedures and periodic testing— when everything else fails.
Does it apply only to SAP?
No. It protects both your SAP systems and the non-SAP ones that sustain operations, aligned with your company's business continuity plan.
First step

Get a quote for your Disaster Recovery Plan.

We start by studying your business processes and current infrastructure to design the DR strategy that best balances recovery and cost for your case.

Design tailored to your critical operations
Cost model based on RTO and RPO
With Novis SAP cloud solution architects
Get a DRP quote →