Disaster Recovery

Get clients back to business in minutes by instantly spinning up systems in the Acronis Cloud and restoring them anywhere, ensuring immediate data availability. Make disaster recovery painless and increase efficiency with orchestration, runbooks, and automatic failover.

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Overview:

Rapidly recover from cyberattacks and other unplanned outages

Acronis’ Advanced Disaster Recovery enables you to restore operations in a few clicks, without any upfront investments, so you can rapidly recover client workloads or services in the event of ransomware, hardware failure, and any other disruption.

Simplify disaster recovery

Enable disaster recovery in a few clicks — without any capital investments needed upfront.

Grow recurring revenue

Deliver complete protection against today’s threats — while increasing your monthly recurring revenue.

Ensure malware-free recoveries

Prevent reinfection by failing over to a malware-free recovery point (available with Advanced Security).

Stay ahead of cyberattacks with a comprehensive Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Solution

Get clients running in mere minutes by spinning up IT systems in the Acronis Cloud with full site-to-site connectivity and the ability to recover them to similar or dissimilar hardware.

Fast recovery

No matter the cause of the unplanned downtime, our disaster recovery technology ensures you achieve both RPOs and RTOs that are under 15 minutes. With the Acronis RunVM engine, you get near-instant production and test failover speeds, while flexible backup frequency policies can help you offer tighter RPOs.

Three-click setup

Skip the additional hardware and installation and set up your disaster recovery plan in three clicks. Choose between multiple templates with different configurations of recovery servers, enabling you to set up disaster recovery plans quickly and easily.

Easy management

No need to add, learn, or manage another platform. Easily configure server lists, test connectivity settings, configure disaster recovery orchestration with runbooks, and recover on multiple networks.

HIPAA-compliant disaster recovery solutions for healthcare

In the fast-paced health care industry, maintaining the privacy and security of patient data is paramount. Acronis is committed to helping health care providers safeguard their critical data while ensuring complete HIPAA compliance. Trust us to keep medical applications with PHI secure, so your customers can focus on what really matters — providing excellent patient care.

Best-in-class security and encryption

Acronis Advanced Disaster Recovery comes with top-notch security features, including the ability recover your workloads from encrypted archives in Acronis Cloud. You can rest assured that your medical records and other sensitive data will remain confidential and secure.

Detailed audit log and additional security measures

In line with HIPAA requirements, Acronis Advanced Disaster Recovery includes comprehensive audit trails and detailed logs, allowing you to monitor and validate all data-related activities effortlessly. Additional security measures such as multifactor authentication add extra layers of protection to your data.

Failback to malware-free recovery point*

In the unfortunate event of a cyberattack, Acronis allows you to failback to a malware-free recovery point. This feature ensures that you can quickly restore your system to a clean state and reduce the impact of ransomware or other malicious activities.
[*Requires Advanced Security pack]

Test failover

Being prepared for an emergency is vital. That's why we provide test failover options to help you validate your disaster recovery plans without affecting your production environment. Gain peace of mind knowing your system can withstand unexpected incidents.

Get peace of mind with Advanced Disaster Recovery

Complete protection in a single solution

Eliminate the need for multiple costly solutions and protect all workloads from a single interface.

Out of the box DRaaS

Get started in three clicks with a software-only solution, without any hardware appliance installation.

Zero upfront license investment

Control your costs with a flexible PAYG model, allowing for higher margins and better OPEX.

Cost-efficient and scalable Hybrid Disaster Recovery (DR)

Combine the full power of Acronis Advanced DR with your home network. One solution provides the best of both to protect client data, systems, and applications — achieving compliance, reducing latency, and optimizing costs.

GDPR, data sovereignty, and regulatory compliance

Deliver a full-featured DR solution that complies with geographic directives and industry best practices for financial, medical, consumer, and business data.

When the cloud is just not fast enough

Some businesses, systems, and services require exceptional recovery SLAs. Eliminate latency risks by recovering locally.

Economic optimization

Right-size hardware and reduce storage costs for low-risk and fault-tolerant use cases without compromising DR. Recover services with significant traffic in your own data center to manage recovery costs.

One solution for any workload

Physical and virtual machines

Windows
Linux

Virtualization platforms

VMware vSphere
Microsoft Hyper-V
Oracle x86 VM Server
Linux KVM
Citrix XenServer
Red Hat Virtualization

Applications

Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SQL Server

Features:

Disaster recovery orchestration

Simplify disaster recovery and increase operational efficiency by automating failovers and orchestrating disaster recovery procedures using runbooks – a set of instructions defining how to spin up the client’s production environment in the cloud.

Disaster recovery for physical and virtual workloads
Minimize downtime by enabling easy, scalable and efficient disaster recovery of all popular workloads including Windows and Linux physical servers and VMs, major hypervisors, and Microsoft apps.

Production failover
Minimize downtime by enabling quick and easy automated failover of the client’s production environment to an off-site server running in Acronis Disaster Recovery Storage or to hot storage in the Acronis Cloud.

Site-to-site VPN connection
Enable a secure VPN connection between the client’s local site and the cloud to facilitate partial failover of tightly dependent servers on the local site. When one of the servers is recreated, it continues to communicate, ensuring minimal downtime.

Near-instant RPOs and RTOs
Achieve both RPOs and RTOs of less than 15 minutes. The Acronis RunVM engine enables best-in-class production and test failover speed, while flexible backup frequency policies lead to tighter RPOs.

Execution monitoring
Gain visibility into disaster recovery orchestration with a detailed runbook-execution, real-time view, and execution history.

Point-in-time recovery
Prevent data loss and avoid data corruption with granular control over backup and recovery capabilities. Restore systems and data to any recoverable point in the past, instead of to the latest one.

IPsec multisite VPN support
Strengthen security with IPSec multisite VPN support that integrates secure protocols and algorithms. You can easily support clients with multiple sites that are hosting critical workloads with higher requirements for security, compliance, and bandwidth.

Custom DNS configuration
Create custom DNS configurations for disaster recovery cloud services in the Acronis Cloud. This enables you to easily adjust DNS settings for your clients, making it even easier for you to support them.

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Deliver complete cyber protection

Businesses now face more threats than ever before. With Acronis, you can easily secure clients’ data and quickly return to a production-ready state in case of any disruption.

Features	Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud	With Advanced Disaster Recovery
File, image, and applications backup
Local recovery with Instant Restore
Test failover
Automated test failover
Cloud-only VPN connection
Production and test failover to Acronis Cloud: Ensure quick and easy automated failover of the client’s production environment
VPN-less deployment option: Connect clients’ quickly and easily with point-to-site connectivity
IPsec Multisite VPN support, L2 site-to-site open VPN: Easily support clients with multiple sites that are hosting critical workloads
Multiple templates: Set up disaster recovery plans for your clients quickly and easily
Runbooks: Simplifies and speeds up failover of multiple machines to a cloud recovery site
Custom DNS configuration: Provide flexibility by setting up custom DNS configurations

Frequently Asked Questions:

Backups are simple; they are copy of your corporate systems and data that can be used to bring a failed system back online. Disaster recovery refers to a more advanced form of system copies that include processing capabilities.

Disaster recovery solutions allow companies to quickly resume business-critical workloads after cyberattacks, natural disasters, or server failures. The disaster recovery process normally involves a separate physical or cloud site to restore data. Every disaster recovery solution aims to help businesses operate as usual. Since business continuity depends on high availability, disaster recovery strategies depend on tight RPOs and RTOs.

Every business will have its own unique requirements, so a good plan will minimize the complexity of the disaster recovery process. When creating a disaster recovery plan for your clients, you will first need to assess the applications, process, and cost versus risk which will help define your approach.

For reliable disaster recovery, you need to look beyond simply copying all of your clients’ databases and files. Their entire infrastructure – servers, PCs, NAS, SAN, hypervisors, and endpoints – contains vital production data. You’ll need to capture application settings, operating system configurations, bookmarks, and registry data for a full recovery.

To be able to failover your clients’ critical workloads, you should back up the data to Acronis Cloud Storage (or cold storage for backups). As the disaster occurs, fail over your clients’ workloads to the offsite server running in the Acronis Disaster Recovery Storage (or hot storage in the Acronis Cloud).

MSP disaster recovery is a service offered by managed service providers to clients that require a disaster recovery solution as a service (DRaaS) to ensure business continuity and client access to their data following a disaster, including a ransomware attack, hardware failure, natural disaster, or any other unplanned outage.

As a managed service provider, you should consider offering a cloud disaster recovery (DR) service — also called Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) — to protect your client’s workloads, limit downtime, and shorten recovery point objectives (RPOs) in the event of unplanned outage. With DRaaS, your clients do not need to invest in additional hardware and software or IT expertise to develop, test and execute an in-house DR strategy. Instead, your organization provides the services to replicate your clients’ systems and data to a cloud infrastructure and orchestrate the failover and failback process.

Documentation:

Download the Acronis Disaster Recovery Datasheet (PDF).