When Local Infrastructure Fails, Your Business Doesn't Have To

Recovering a File Is Different From Recovering a Business

There's a meaningful difference between restoring a lost file and bringing a downed server or application back online for the whole business to keep working. The first is backup. The second is disaster recovery — and it requires infrastructure ready to run your systems the moment local infrastructure fails, not just a copy of the data sitting in storage.

Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud provides exactly that: your critical systems can fail over to the cloud when local infrastructure is unavailable, with defined recovery time and recovery point objectives, and — because it's part of the same Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud platform as your backup — the whole thing is built on infrastructure that's already actively protecting your data, not a bolted-on afterthought.

Business Impact Analysis

Identifying critical systems and quantifying the real cost of downtime for each

Recovery Time & Recovery Point Objectives

Defined, business-aligned targets per system

Cloud-Based Failover

Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud infrastructure ready to run critical systems when local infrastructure fails

Failover & Failback Planning

Documented runbooks for both failing over and returning to normal operations afterward

Regular DR Testing

Scheduled failover drills to confirm systems actually come back online within target timeframes

Ransomware-Aware Recovery

Recovery built on the same platform actively defending your backup data against ransomware

01

Assess

We identify critical systems and quantify what downtime would actually cost your business.

02

Define

We set specific recovery time and recovery point objectives per system, agreed with your business stakeholders.

03

Configure

We set up Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud failover infrastructure for your critical systems.

04

Test

We run scheduled failover drills under realistic conditions to confirm the plan actually works.

05

Refine

We update the plan as your infrastructure and business priorities change.

What's the difference between backup and disaster recovery?

Backup restores data — files, mailboxes, individual items. Disaster recovery brings entire systems and applications back online so the business can keep operating, using cloud infrastructure as a failover target when local systems fail.

How often should we test our disaster recovery plan?

At minimum annually, ideally more often for critical systems — a failover plan that's never been tested can't be trusted when you actually need it.

Can this protect us against ransomware specifically?

Yes — because disaster recovery runs on the same Acronis platform actively defending backup data against ransomware, recovery infrastructure isn't vulnerable to the same attack that took down your primary systems.

Is this the same as Disaster Recovery as a Service?

Yes. This is our Disaster Recovery as a Service offering — cloud failover for full systems, delivered on Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud and managed by our team, alongside the architecture and continuity planning around it.