Stop losing money when critical workloads, files or applications become unavailable. Ensure cyber resilience with quick failover to the cloud, making your infrastructure resilient and cost efficient.
Easy, intuitive, integrated
Quick to deploy, easy-to-use, no training required and integrated into Acronis Cyber Protect.Fast and cost effective
Requires no infrastructure investments yet delivers rapid recovery.Highly secure
Certified Acronis Cloud data centers and secure storage ensure your data remains protected.

Customer satisfaction is the single most important aspect of any business as it leads to additional sales, reputational growth and “word-of-mouth” recommendations. That’s why Acronis is honoured to be named an October 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Cyber Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).
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Minimize incidents and improve productivity
Ensure the instant availability of critical business workloads
Protection for on-premises and cloud workloads
Get complete data and infrastructure protection with one integrated solution for any environment — on premises, in remote systems or the cloud. In the event of disaster, quickly failover and run in the Acronis Cloud.Multiple recovery point times
Protect more systems while reducing the impact on disk-storage and network capacity by capturing only the blocks with data that has changed since the previous backup. Acronis Cyber Backup deduplication.- Advanced
Application-level replication
Run mission-critical applications constantly, even when your production environment is down. Achieve the best recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) by quickly adding virtual machines in the Acronis Cloud and hosting replicas of the applications. Isolated testing environment
Ensure process availability with non-disruptive failover testing. Keep all backed up servers and applications running continuously and in line with your disaster recovery plan by starting recovery servers in Acronis Cloud’s isolated testing environment, with no impact on your production network.Intuitive web-based console
Empower IT generalists to set up, add and configure the cloud-based recovery server with just a few clicks. The intuitive, touch-friendly, web-based console ensures you can easily implement most disaster recovery activities, including network configuration, failover testing and failback.Easy network configuration
Extend your network to the recovery site to provide transparent, remote access to recovery servers in failover mode. Our VPN virtual appliance makes it simple.Execution monitoring
Gain visibility into disaster recovery orchestration with a detailed runbook execution, real-time view and execution history.Site-to-site VPN connection
Enable secure VPN connection between the local and cloud sites to facilitate partial failover of tightly dependent servers on the local site. When a server is recreated on the cloud site, the servers continue to communicate, minimising downtime.IPsec multisite VPN support
Strengthen security with IPSec multisite VPN support that integrates secure protocols and algorithms, so you can easily support multiple sites hosting critical workloads with higher requirements for security, compliance and bandwidth.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Disaster Recovery (DR) in Acronis Cyber Protect?
Disaster Recovery in Acronis Cyber Protect is an integrated solution that empowers businesses to quickly resume operations in the event of a major IT disruption. This could include events like ransomware attacks, hardware failures, accidental deletions or natural disasters. Acronis DR enables you to replicate your critical systems and applications in real time or on a scheduled basis and fail over those systems to the Acronis Cloud if an outage occurs. The failover systems can be activated within minutes, enabling employees to continue working from the cloud-hosted environment while on-premises systems are restored in the background. Because DR is embedded within the Acronis Cyber Protect platform, you benefit from seamless integration with backup, cybersecurity, patch management and monitoring tools, all from a single management console.
How is Acronis Disaster Recovery different from traditional backup?
While traditional backup is essential for recovering data after it's lost or corrupted, it doesn’t guarantee that your business services will continue running while that recovery takes place. Traditional backup usually involves restoring files or systems back onto existing infrastructure, which can take hours or even days, especially if replacement hardware is needed or if large volumes of data must be redownloaded. Acronis Disaster Recovery goes beyond this by enabling you to create and maintain ready-to-launch replicas of your critical systems in the cloud. In the event of a disruption, those replicas can be spun up immediately, allowing operations to resume almost instantly. This is especially important for businesses that can’t afford prolonged downtime, such as those in health care, finance or e-commerce. By combining backup and DR into one solution, Acronis offers a streamlined and efficient approach to resilience.
How quickly can I recover my systems with Acronis DR?
Acronis DR is built for speed and automation, enabling organizations to recover their systems in a matter of minutes, depending on the configuration. With predefined disaster recovery runbooks — automated workflows that outline the order and steps for recovery — Acronis can orchestrate the failover of multiple systems at once, reducing manual effort and human error. Critical business services can be restored quickly in the Acronis Cloud, ensuring that your users experience minimal disruption. While recovery time objectives (RTOs) will vary based on your environment, many SMBs and mid-sized businesses can expect to achieve RTOs under one hour. This fast recovery is made possible by continuous or scheduled replication, cloud infrastructure that supports high availability, and the ability to test and optimize your DR plan in advance.
Do I need special infrastructure to use Acronis DR?
No additional hardware or complex infrastructure is required to implement Acronis Disaster Recovery. It is a cloud-native service that runs entirely within the Acronis Cloud, making it especially appealing for small and midsized businesses without the resources to build or maintain a secondary data center. All replication, failover and management tasks are handled through the unified Acronis Cyber Protect platform. This eliminates the need to juggle multiple vendors or tools and reduces the technical burden on your IT team. You can protect physical and virtual machines, configure recovery plans, and initiate failovers directly from the same interface you use for backup and cybersecurity. This simplicity and low barrier to entry make enterprise-grade DR capabilities accessible to companies of all sizes.
Can Acronis DR protect both physical and virtual systems?
Yes, Acronis supports a wide range of environments, making it possible to protect both physical and virtual systems. Whether your business runs on Windows or Linux physical servers, VMware or Hyper-V virtual machines, or has a combination of on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure, Acronis provides a unified solution. This flexibility is crucial in modern IT environments where businesses often rely on a mix of legacy systems and newer cloud workloads. You don’t need separate tools or vendors to cover different parts of your IT estate — Acronis can replicate and recover all of it through a consistent interface. This means you can build a comprehensive and cohesive disaster recovery strategy that evolves as your infrastructure changes.
What is automated failover, and how does Acronis handle it?
Automated failover refers to the process by which your systems and workloads are automatically transferred to a secondary environment — typically cloud-based — in the event of a failure. Acronis simplifies and streamlines this process through the use of disaster recovery runbooks. These are predefined plans that dictate exactly which systems to fail over, in what order and with what dependencies or configurations. Once a disruption is detected or declared, the system executes the runbook automatically, bringing critical services back online in the Acronis Cloud. This reduces the need for manual intervention and ensures that recovery happens quickly and consistently. In contrast to traditional disaster recovery approaches that rely heavily on IT staff following a checklist during high-stress moments, Acronis’ automated system enhances reliability, reduces recovery time and gives you greater confidence that your business can withstand an outage.
Can I test my disaster recovery plans?
Yes. Acronis enables you to test your disaster recovery plans regularly, safely and without disrupting your live systems. DR testing is essential for verifying that your recovery runbooks are correctly configured and that failover processes will work as expected during a real incident. Acronis enables testing in isolated virtual environments, meaning your production systems remain unaffected while you validate your plan. These tests can simulate different failure scenarios and give your team the chance to practice recovery procedures. Regular testing not only boosts internal confidence in your DR strategy, but also helps meet regulatory and compliance requirements for industries where uptime and data integrity are critical. The ability to test frequently and with ease is a major advantage over traditional DR approaches that often avoid testing due to cost, complexity or risk.
How secure is the Acronis Cloud used for disaster recovery?
Security is fundamental to Acronis’ cloud infrastructure. Data is encrypted using AES-256 both in transit and at rest, ensuring that your backups and failover environments are protected against unauthorized access. The Acronis Cloud is hosted in data centers with strict physical security controls, including biometric access, surveillance and 24/7 monitoring. In addition to data center compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR, Acronis also layers on cyber protection technologies — including anti-ransomware and vulnerability assessments — that safeguard your DR processes as well. This is critical, as recovery points and cloud replicas can themselves be targeted during sophisticated attacks. With Acronis, you can be confident that your DR plan is not only available and fast but also protected against emerging cyberthreats.
Is Acronis DR suitable for small and midsized businesses (SMBs)?
Absolutely. Acronis Disaster Recovery is designed to be practical, scalable, and cost effective for SMBs. It delivers the kind of protection previously only accessible to large enterprises, but without the high overhead, staffing demands or expensive hardware. Because Acronis Cyber Protect integrates DR, backup, security and management into a single platform, SMBs can reduce their vendor sprawl, lower their total cost of ownership, and simplify operations. The user interface is intuitive, and the solution requires minimal ongoing maintenance, making it ideal for businesses with lean IT teams. It also scales with your growth — enabling you to add new systems, users and policies easily as your organization evolves. With Acronis, SMBs can achieve enterprise-grade resilience without enterprise-grade complexity.
How does Acronis Disaster Recovery integrate with the rest of Acronis Cyber Protect?
Disaster recovery is a core component of the Acronis Cyber Protect platform, which brings together backup, cybersecurity, patch management and remote monitoring into a single, unified solution. This integration means you don’t have to manage multiple products or switch between interfaces to keep your systems protected. Everything is centrally managed through one console, with a single agent and a single license model. This reduces operational complexity, minimizes training needs and improves overall system performance. It also means that your DR strategy is aligned with your backup and cybersecurity strategies — so there are no blind spots or overlaps. With Acronis, you get complete cyber resilience from one vendor, optimized to work together for maximum efficiency and peace of mind.
I'm a customer with on-premises installation, how can I get Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery?
To start using Acronis Disaster Recovery add on, you will need to have Acronis Cyber Protect subscription license to access the management console in the Acronis Cloud. This new cloud installation will allow you to protect new systems. You will need to configure new settings accordingly (i.e., the system will not include your previous on-premises backup configurations).
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