Data Recovery & Disaster Recovery
Emergency data recovery, backup solutions, and disaster recovery planning — protecting your critical business data and ensuring business continuity in the face of data loss, corruption, or system failures.
Book a Free ConsultationWhat is disaster recovery, and how is it different from a backup?
Disaster recovery is the plan and the infrastructure that bring a system back after a failure within agreed limits: how much data you can afford to lose (the recovery point objective, RPO) and how long you can be down (the recovery time objective, RTO). A backup is only one part of it, so Mantiqi tests that backups actually restore, sets up replicas in a second site and writes the runbooks — and handles emergency recovery when something has already broken.
Typical timeline: Emergency triage and recovery within the first 48 hours; DR architecture and cutover in weeks 2–6.
Why this matters
When a database corrupts, a server dies, or someone runs DROP TABLE on production, the next 24 hours decide whether your business loses a day of work or a month. Most Saudi mid-market firms discover their backup strategy was theoretical only when they need to restore from it — backups that never tested, replicas that fell out of sync months ago, snapshots stored in the same region as the primary. Mantiqi handles emergency recovery when something has already broken, AND builds the prevention layer (tested backups, multi-region replicas, runbooks) so the next incident is a 5-minute notification, not a 5-day outage.
What We Deliver
How we deliver
- 01
Triage + recovery
Hours 0–48If you're calling because something just broke: we scope the damage, identify what's recoverable from your existing backups + replicas + WAL archives, and execute the recovery against a parallel environment so production isn't the experiment ground.
- Damage + recoverability assessment within 4 hours
- Parallel-environment restore + validation
- Recovered data handover with integrity report
- Root-cause analysis (post-recovery)
- 02
Backup + replication audit
Week 1Whether you came in via emergency or planning, this step is the same: audit your current backup strategy, find the gaps (untested restores, single-region storage, missed databases), and produce a written remediation plan ranked by RPO / RTO impact.
- Backup-strategy gap analysis
- RPO / RTO target setting per workload
- Storage-cost optimization recommendations
- Compliance-mapped retention policy
- 03
DR architecture + cutover
Weeks 2–6Multi-region replication for critical databases, automated backup pipelines with restore tests built in, infrastructure-as-code for the standby environment, and a documented DR runbook tested in a game-day before being declared production-ready.
- Multi-region database replication
- Automated backup + restore-test pipeline
- DR environment as IaC
- Game-day runbook + first dry-run executed
- 04
Quarterly DR exercise
OngoingBackup + DR systems rot silently. Quarterly game-days exercise the full restore path against fresh production data so the runbook stays current and your team stays trained. The goal of this tier is to move you from 'untested' to 'actually-failover-capable', proven by a successful game-day rather than by a document.
- Quarterly game-day execution
- Runbook updates per cycle
- Annual auditor-ready DR test report
- On-call coverage for incidents
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Email hello@mantiqi.com with the subject "DATA EMERGENCY" and a short description (which database / file system, what you did, what happened) and we triage within 4 hours during Saudi business hours, longer outside. Don't run further commands against the affected system in the meantime — most data-recovery jobs get harder when somebody well-meaning attempts a fix first.
Realistic recoveries: accidentally-dropped tables (point-in-time restore from WAL), deleted files on systems with snapshots, corrupted Postgres/MySQL/SQL Server databases (page-level repair if catalog is intact), failed RAID rebuilds (with the right hardware). Less recoverable: ransomware-encrypted data without a clean backup, physically destroyed drives without redundancy, data that was overwritten multiple times.
Recovery work runs inside your existing environment — Saudi-hosted cloud, on-prem, or wherever your residency plan already allows — and we don't move data anywhere your residency obligations forbid. For DR architecture the warm-standby site follows the same rule: where data must stay in-Kingdom, standby stays in-Kingdom too (a second Saudi-hosted site or an on-prem facility). Compliance-mapped retention follows NCA ECC / SAMA guidance.
Depends on the workload, not just the cloud. For a critical database: RPO 5 minutes / RTO 30 minutes is achievable with continuous WAL shipping + warm standby for around SAR 8k–18k/mo of cloud cost on top of normal infra. For less-critical apps, daily backups + cold standby (RPO 24h / RTO 4h) costs almost nothing. We'll size per workload during the audit phase.
Restore tests run automatically on every new backup, not annually. We spin up a temporary environment, restore the latest backup, run a validation suite (row counts, checksums, smoke tests against critical queries), and report the result. If a restore fails, you know the same day the backup was taken — not the day you actually needed it.
Still have questions?
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Free 30-min DR readiness assessment
Send us a description of your current backup + replication setup. We'll send back a written assessment covering RPO / RTO exposure per workload, the top 3 gaps we see, and a remediation plan with cost estimates. Or skip straight to emergency recovery if something's already broken — same email, same number.
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