Acronis Cyber Protect vs Quest Rapid Recovery comparison

Acronis and Quest Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Acronis is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.2, while Quest Software is ranked #36 with an average rating of 8.5. Acronis holds a 4.4% mindshare in BRS, compared to Quest Software’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Acronis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

Acronis Cyber Protect

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Acronis Cyber Protect and Quest Rapid Recovery offer robust data protection solutions. Users report higher satisfaction with the support and pricing of Acronis Cyber Protect, although Quest Rapid Recovery has superior features, justifying its investment.

Features: Acronis Cyber Protect provides a comprehensive backup and cybersecurity integration, simplifying management. It includes automated patch management, vulnerability assessments, and data-driven backups. Quest Rapid Recovery features advanced recovery options with near-instant recovery times, effective data deduplication, and repository management.

Room for Improvement: Acronis Cyber Protect could benefit from enhanced scalability, better system resource usage, and improved user interface design. Quest Rapid Recovery users recommend streamlining the setup process, improving documentation, and advancing reporting tools. Both products need better reporting capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Users find Acronis Cyber Protect easier to deploy due to its straightforward setup and client support. Quest Rapid Recovery has a steeper learning curve despite excellent technical support, primarily due to its more complex feature set, which can take longer to implement.

Pricing and ROI:Acronis Cyber Protect is noted for its affordability, offering good value for small to mid-sized businesses. Quest Rapid Recovery, while often more costly, is considered beneficial by users needing its advanced recovery capabilities, providing a higher perceived ROI despite a higher initial setup cost.

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Protect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

121

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (5th)

Quest Rapid Recovery

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

36th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Protect is 4.4%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Quest Rapid Recovery is 0.6%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Stuart Grigor

Senior Manager Governance and Quality Assurance at Motus Car Rental

Good backup solution but challenges with the stability

It is recommended that people know what they are starting with. A part of our challenge was we bought and needed to implement it. So by the time we went to implement it, we were running into support issues. Also, make a market comparison to ensure that the product you choose is what you want to end up with. I would give it a six out of ten because restoring from a backup takes longer than usual. It should happen in a matter of hours, not a matter of days. We are yet to have an experience when trying to restore from Acronis that we haven't had to wait at least a couple of days for our server to be available for testing or working.

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Adam Augustín

Country Manager at Prianto Ltd

Granular recovery, replication is good and offers good speed

It is for any kind of company that uses their own servers. From a global perspective, our clients are small-sized companies. All the SMEs, compared to the Slovakian market, are quite small. It's a small market with small companies. They just want to enhance security and follow regulations It's…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"One of its most valuable aspects is its user-friendly interface."

"It makes a full image of the hard drive. If a hard drive fails, all we do is recover to another hard drive."

"Consistency and reliability. The interface is easy to understand and consistent across applications. While not 100%, it is a very reliable backup solution."

"The solution is exceptional for desktop backup."

"I've reimaged servers and been back up and running in exactly no time with the completely new hardware."

"The licensing model is very good."

"i use the backup solution and I use something called Disk Director, which is a related product. Together, they allow me to manage all of my storage space."

"It works with different types of partitions or different OSs."

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"The compression and deduplication features have helped to save on storage costs."

"It is more fully integrated with the hypervisor, particularly with VMware solution, and it is simple to create replica sets to our VR site."

"The general backup for replication and virtual standby are the most valuable aspects. It does what it says it does. It's a decent tool for not a big budget."

"The fact that it can take a snapshot of everything on a server and replicate it on another server in real-time is the most valuable feature."

"Just knowing that the data is easily recoverable is our ROI. It definitely lowers risk."

"Probably the point-in-time recovery is most valuable. The other piece that is really nice is that you can mount a whole server at any point in time. So, you can mount the server with all the drives to a Z drive or something like that. It will just mount it all up, and your data is accessible right there on one drive, which is nice."

"The most valuable feature of Quest Rapid Recovery for our organization is the VM recovery functionality."

"The local mount utility is most valuable. I do restores fairly regularly. Thankfully, I have not ever lost an entire server that I've had to resurrect, but I certainly have people who erroneously saved over a file or have deleted a file. So, we've done that quite a bit. We still have the DL4000 appliance, and we had, kind of, extrapolated that out over a five-year period. Now, we're in year six, so we had to add storage, which we did as a SAN next to DL4000, but prior to adding in that extra storage, we, here and there, would run into situations where for whatever reason, it would want to be pulling a new base image, and then we would run out of storage. So, we would utilize the archive feature and archive the old data that we want to hang on to, but we don't necessarily need it taking up current data storage. Being able to export out really old data is most valuable to us. Then, we just store that on a NAS that we keep in another building."

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Cons

"There are times when the backups are slow. A faster backup would be better."

"Their support process can be quite lengthy...This is an area that needs improvement."

"It would be nice to have it on the cloud platform without using third-party equipment."

"The product would be better if they offered more integration capabilities."

"It could have a better ability to manage backups over a longer period."

"One improvement that could be made is adding the option to download files in a PST format when doing a 365 or Google Cloud to cloud backup."

"We have sometimes issues with the child copies and other similar functions, but it's normal with any backup solution. We need to fix those issues first in order for us to be able to do the backup properly."

"I believe that the next release should be easier to configure as this one is difficult to configure even the easiest of tasks."

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"It is quite surprising to me that the configuration cannot be backed up automatically, and I think that Rapid Recovery should have an option for scheduled configuration backup."

"When you do a full backup, all of the memory resources on the server are used, which is something that should be improved."

"The terminology didn't seem easily available. When I go to the website, it is hard to search for things. You get all the articles, then you finally get the search button. They need the search at the top of the knowledge base. Then, on occasion, if you get an error message in the system, which is very important, it says, "Click here for more information," but I never get more information. The search engine doesn't find it or it is some weird error. It has never worked for me."

"It's buggy. That's a big problem. We're arranging to get rid of it. We're going to switch to Veeam."

"For the most part, it is really good in terms of flexibility and choice of recovery methods. What we found lacking was being able to back up virtual volumes that are clustered. We ran out of luck there. There should be an option for backing up clustered virtual volumes."

"There is room for improvement in customer service and support. I would like to see faster response time."

"The on-premises deployment model shouldn't have a maintenance fee. If there's going to be technical support, they need it to be free or it should be paid on upon adopting the solution."

"I think the self-paced learning and knowledge base can always be improved so that users can self-service without having to contact either a reseller or Quest. I know there are things that I would have been looking for to try and solve. And the only way I could get there was to actually open a ticket rather than go through self-service through the portal."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is reasonable."

"You pay for what you use in the cloud. If you don't start the virtual machine in the cloud, you only pay for the information stored there. But when you start the virtual machine, another pricing model is activated."

"The price of the solution is expensive and could be reduced a little."

"It is very cost-effective for the SMB segment, especially for start-ups and smaller environments. It is cost-effective for on-premises and on-cloud deployments in such environments."

"I would say that at the pricepoint that it's at, it's definitely worth the money."

"We have a Cyber Cloud backup license and we have on-premises storage. Both can be useful for our customers."

"It has already paid off itself in the first few months that we implemented it."

"The pricing is comparable to the newest solution available on the market, Altaro."

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"It's very expensive which is why I want to drop it. They charge us per core and we have a six-core server. It's expensive to pay for maintenance charges. I want to switch to something cheaper."

"When I purchased the change to the license, it was $1,600. I think that was for changing the license. I don't believe that I had to purchase technical support in a while, so I must've bought maybe for five years, but I don't feel there was a huge cost involved in technical support. Its cost was definitely worth it because we've had a fantastic experience with them."

"It is a little expensive. However, I haven't compared it to other solutions. Being a nonprofit, it is always good to have nonprofit discounts on products."

"Its price is okay. It is reasonable in terms of the way it works."

"I believe the basic license comes with six terabytes, whereas a lot of the other ones are four terabytes. From the price point, it seemed a lot better than the comparative models, such as Datto, Barracuda, and some of the others. I believe Barracuda was about $15,000 for four terabytes, and Quest was around $12,000 for six terabytes. Pricing is based on the period. There is just the maintenance fee that you have to pay annually, or you can pay for a three-year or four-year contract. This includes Premier Support."

"Licensing fees are based on the amount of data that you want to store, which is related to how many customers you want to cover."

"I don't think the licensing for the product is very expensive."

"The pricing is on the higher end."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Real Estate/Law Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four ...

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How does Acronis Backup compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?

Acronis Backup is a versatile backup-as-a-service solution for service providers. It allows you to protect workloads on-premises and in the cloud and provide backup to any storage. The deployment i...

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What do you like most about Acronis Backup?

One of its most valuable aspects is its user-friendly interface.

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What do you like most about Quest Rapid Recovery?

The most valuable feature of Quest Rapid Recovery for our organization is the VM recovery functionality.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quest Rapid Recovery?

Dell solutions are approximately 30% to 35% more expensive than Veeam.

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What needs improvement with Quest Rapid Recovery?

The product is expensive.

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Compared 9% of the time

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Also Known As

Acronis Backup, Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard, Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced

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Overview

Acronis Cyber Protect offers a revolutionary approach to cyber protection by integrating data protection with cybersecurity. This integrated method eliminates complexity challenges, delivers better protection against today’s threats, and maximizes efficiency by saving time and money. With its full-stack antimalware protection and comprehensive endpoint management, Acronis Cyber Protect combats advanced cyberattacks with a unique integration of protection technologies while simplifying daily IT operations, endpoint deployments and management, and reporting. Now you can manage all cyber protection aspects from a single pane of glass.

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Quest Rapid Recovery is a software solution that helps you recover your lost or deleted data quickly and easily. It works by scanning your hard drive for any traces of lost or deleted files, and then recovering them for you. You can use Quest Rapid Recovery to recover files from any type of storage device, including your computer's hard drive, an external hard drive, a USB flash drive, or even a memory card.

Quest Rapid Recovery is easy to use and comes with a user-friendly interface. It also has a wide range of features that make it one of the most powerful data recovery tools available on the market today. Whether you need to recover a single file or your entire system, Quest Rapid Recovery is flexible enough to get the job done.

The software offers simple solutions for backup and restoration. You can monitor and manage backup and recovery environments across multiple sites from one cloud-based management console. The software also tracks changed blocks to speed up backups and reduce storage usage. In addition, Quest Rapid Recovery deploys application-consistent backup with fast recovery for file servers and applications on both Microsoft Windows and Linux systems.

Quest Rapid Recovery Features

Cloud archive: Stores your static data in Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3, Rackspace, or any OpenStack provider. This gives you more options for recovering your data. You can directly mount the archives to do a bare metal restore or a file-level restore.
Rapid snap for applications: Incremental-forever snapshots can be used to capture an entire application and its relevant state every 5 minutes, so that the application can be recovered quickly with near-zero downtime and minimal data loss.
Rapid snap for virtual: Protect your growing virtual environment by protecting VMware and Hyper-V VMs without disrupting applications and users.
Live recovery: Restores operations rapidly with an RTO of minutes.
Virtual standby: If the primary machine has any problems, the virtual machine will be activated to take its place.

Quest Rapid Recovery Benefits

Offers the ability to easily back up data in the data center and in the cloud.
Allows users to return to work quickly and without any impact on their business.
Ensures you set recovery point objectives that are specific in order to reduce the risk of data loss.
Reduces the amount of storage space you need to back up your files and save money on backup costs.
Uses the cloud to back up, archive, and store your data in case of a disaster.
Functions as a single solution for both physical and virtual environments.

Reviews from Real Users

Quest Rapid Recovery stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to greatly reduce backup and recovery time and its ability to mount an entire server.

PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews. Glenn R., an ICT network manager at St Christopher's School Hove, writes, “We have reduced our backup and recovery time by between 80% and 90%. Built-in encryption helps to secure our data as it travels from our on-site server to our off-site backup server.”

Bill V., a systems and network administrator at a tech services company, notes, “Probably the point-in-time recovery is most valuable. The other piece that is really nice is that you can mount a whole server at any point in time. So, you can mount the server with all the drives to a Z drive or something like that. It will just mount it all up, and your data is accessible right there on one drive, which is nice."

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Sample Customers

Kings Academy, Rush Memorial, Pentagon Credit Union, Oxford School District, New York City Probation, Dolmen Insurance, New Bedford Community Health, Gerard Darel, Ready Honda

PRIME aerostructures GmbH, Tamworth Regional Council, Rhondda Housing Association, Stadtwerke Pforzheim GmbH & Co., Guangdong Aiyingdao Childrens Department Store, Nspyre, Tarrant Technology Partners, CloudRunner

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