What is Acronis Disaster Recovery for Nexcess Cloud?

Overview

Acronis Disaster Recovery is an addon to our Acronis Backup service. Disaster Recovery provides a comprehensive IT continuity solution that actively protects your virtual machines from data loss and downtime. Using your Acronis backups as a restore point, it allows you to quickly failover to a new server quickly and continue operations during an emergency. This service is critical if your business needs to remain online even during unexpected server failures or cyberattacks.

Parameters / Features

Acronis offers multiple tools to secure your infrastructure. Each feature specifically targets a different layer of data protection:

  • Continuous Data Protection: Acronis continuously replicates your critical data. Therefore, you minimize potential data loss between scheduled backups.
  • Automated Failover: During an outage, you can rapidly switch to a replica VM. As a result, your critical applications stay online.
  • Active Ransomware Protection: Built-in AI actively monitors your systems. It detects threats, stops malicious encryption, and automatically restores affected files.
  • Centralized Management: You control all recovery plans from a single, unified web portal.
  • Non-Disruptive Testing: You can test your recovery plans safely in an isolated sandbox. Crucially, this testing does not impact your live production environment.

Examples

Acronis provides essential tools for rapidly resolving IT crises. For instance, consider these practical recovery examples:

  • Recovering from a Ransomware Attack: A malicious script targets your database VM. First, Acronis AI detects the unauthorized encryption and stops it. Next, you use the portal to instantly revert the VM to a clean state.
  • Handling Hardware Failures: A critical application server crashes unexpectedly. Immediately, you initiate a failover protocol in the Acronis dashboard. Consequently, the system spins up a standby replica to maintain service.

Common Use Cases

  • Ensuring Business Continuity: High-traffic e-commerce sites use Acronis to avoid costly downtime. Therefore, customer transactions continue smoothly even during regional outages.
  • Meeting Compliance Requirements: Many industries demand strict data retention and recovery strategies. Accordingly, Acronis helps businesses meet these rigorous regulatory standards.
  • Simulating Disaster Scenarios: IT teams must regularly test their disaster response. Specifically, they run simulated failovers using Acronis without affecting active customers.