- Recover the whole line, not half of it: after ransomware or a hardware failure, restore the HMI or SCADA server with Acronis, then the verified controller program from Copia's offsite copy, each in minutes rather than days.
- Know what changed, and when: DeviceLink compares the running machine with the expected code and alerts on an unexpected change.
- Audit evidence as a byproduct of daily work: change logs and backup reports support the traceability NIS2, NERC CIP and IEC 62443 ask for, on a platform whose cloud operations are SOC 2 Type II compliant.
- Deployed at scale: Amazon has connected 1,000+ devices across 35+ sites (as of mid-2025) and expects Copia to cut PLC-driven downtime by 80%.
OT recovery from server to controller with Copia Automation and Acronis
Copia Automation backs up, versions and restores the code that runs the plant floor: the control programs on PLCs (programmable logic controllers), HMIs (human-machine interfaces) and robots. IT recovers in hours; operational technology (OT) can take far longer, because PLC code is rarely backed up and even more rarely tracked. Copia DeviceLink™ closes that gap: scheduled or on-demand controller backups, machine-level change detection and restore of the latest verified program in minutes, every version kept in Git-based history. Copia Source Control and DeviceLink together work across Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, ABB, Beckhoff, B&R, WAGO and CODESYS (backup support varies by vendor).
Bringing a line back after an incident has two halves.
The first is the supervisory and site-operations layer, where Acronis works: the SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) and HMI servers, historians and engineering workstations running Windows or Linux. Acronis, recognized by industry analysts as the leader in OT cyber resilience, protects those systems with operator-run recovery and support for legacy Windows and Linux. If you already protect clients' Windows and Linux servers with Acronis, that side of the plant is familiar ground.
The second half is the controller. Copia is a leader in PLC backup and version control. Most PLCs have no general-purpose operating system to image and cannot take a backup agent, so restoring the engineering workstation does not restore the controller. Copia captures the program itself, versions it and keeps the verified version ready to restore.
Combined, the two provide a unified approach to data protection and recovery across the OT network. Acronis restores the servers and workstations; Copia restores the controller code.
On the Purdue model, Acronis covers Levels 4 and 5 (enterprise), 3.5 (the industrial DMZ between plant and office networks), 3 (site operations) and the supervisory hosts at Level 2; Copia covers HMI application code at Level 2 and controller and robot programs at Level 1. Every layer from the enterprise network down to the controller has a versioned, known-good copy, and the coverage is complementary rather than duplicated. Neither replaces network segmentation. Today the two run side by side, each from its own console.
- Who this is for: Acronis partners whose clients are asking them to cover the plant floor, and those clients' OT and IT teams in manufacturing, distribution, food and beverage, energy, water and data centers.
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