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When the Server Room Is Gone, Be Running in the Cloud — Acronis Disaster Recovery by palmiq

Acronis Disaster Recovery spins up your environment in the cloud in minutes — Acronis Cloud, Azure, or hybrid — with clean recovery points. Managed by palmiq.

What Is Acronis Disaster Recovery?

Disaster Recovery (DR) is the layer above backup: instead of restoring files onto replacement hardware over days, DR spins up your protected systems as running virtual machines in the cloud — in minutes — while you deal with the fire, flood, or ransomware that took production down. Acronis Disaster Recovery does this directly from the backups palmiq already manages, with no separate DR infrastructure and no extra agent.

One console covers backup and DR with a choice of failover targets: Acronis Cloud (turnkey, pay-as-you-go), Microsoft Azure (cold tier now, warm tier for near-zero RTO coming), or hybrid — sensitive data on-prem with cloud orchestration for regional disasters.

Why This One

  • Failover Directly From Backups

    No second product, no replication silo — DR is a capability switched on atop existing Acronis backups. Enablement is a few clicks, which is why palmiq can offer real RTO commitments without exotic budgets.

  • Malware-Free Recovery Points

    Failing over to an infected recovery point just restarts the incident. Acronis validates recovery points so ransomware failover lands on a clean copy — the difference between recovery and reinfection.

  • Runbooks and One-Click Execution

    Application stacks fail over in dependency order — database before app server before interface — via guided runbooks someone on call can execute at 3 a.m. Failback moves only changed blocks while systems keep running.

  • Wide Platform Support

    Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server, Active Directory; Linux distributions; VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Nutanix, Scale Computing, Citrix — modern and legacy alike.

How palmiq Runs It

  1. Tier

    • Business-impact mapping: which systems need minutes-level recovery, which can wait — and what each tier costs, honestly.

  2. Build

    • Failover targets, networking (site-to-site or point-to-site VPN), runbooks, and DNS strategy — engineered, documented, rehearsed.

  3. Test

Common questions

What RTO can we actually expect?

Minutes for systems in the DR tier — production environments spin up in the cloud from validated recovery points. palmiq agrees the targets with you up front and proves them in tests, not incident post-mortems.

Do we need duplicate hardware somewhere?

No — that's the point. Recovery compute runs in Acronis Cloud or Azure and bills only during tests and disasters (cold tier: pay for compute only if disaster strikes).

Ransomware hit us — does DR help or spread it?

Acronis DR is built for exactly this: failover to a malware-free recovery point, isolated test recovery first, and reinfection prevented — while [EDR](/partners/acronis/edr) handles the live threat.

Watch a real failover, live

A private session where palmiq runs backup and disaster recovery in front of you — failover, failback, and the questions in between.

Book the Live DR Session or call 703-336-9700