What Is Acronis Backup?
Acronis backup is the data-protection core of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud: one platform, one agent, and one console protecting every workload a business runs — physical servers (Windows and Linux, file, disk, and image-based, with Continuous Data Protection), virtual machines (agentless for VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV), cloud VMs, and SaaS (Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace). It's the platform palmiq — an Acronis Platinum partner — has built its data-protection practice on.
What separates it from every legacy backup product: security is inside the backup itself. Backup images are scanned for malware, storage can be made immutable, and Safe Recovery prevents restoring an infected machine back into production.
Why Acronis Backup
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Every Workload, Actually
30+ platform types under one policy model — the aging physical server, the Hyper-V cluster, the laptops, and Microsoft 365, without three different backup products to license and babysit.
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Recovery at Business Speed
Instant Restore for VMs, one-click mass recovery for thousands of machines at once, and P2V/V2V/V2C conversions — recovery flexibility that turns a dead server into a running VM in minutes.
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Ransomware-Resistant by Design
Immutable, geo-redundant storage; AI-assisted anti-malware scanning of backup images; forensic backups for regulated industries; FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption. Backups are the attacker's first target — these are the countermeasures.
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NEW — Entra ID Backup
Acronis now backs up the identity layer itself: users, groups, policies, and configurations with relationships intact, recoverable beyond Microsoft's native limits. When identity breaks, everything breaks — now it's protected too.
How palmiq Runs It
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Design
- Coverage mapping, retention and immutability policy, and storage architecture (Acronis Cloud, public cloud, or hybrid).
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Operate
- 24/7 monitoring of every job — failures caught and fixed by palmiq, not discovered during a restore.
- Backup scanning and Safe Recovery configured so restore points are trustworthy.
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Prove
- Scheduled restore tests with documented results — because a backup that's never been restored is a hypothesis, not a plan. It's the basis for palmiq's managed backup with a written restore guarantee.