Acronis Cyber Protect vs Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] comparison

Acronis and Quest Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Additionally, 86% 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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86% willing to recommend

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 23, 2025

Acronis Cyber Protect and Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] compete in the backup and recovery solutions category. Acronis Cyber Protect appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features and ability to integrate seamlessly with diverse environments and cloud platforms.

Features: Acronis Cyber Protect is notable for its universal restore and robust ransomware protection, making it highly suitable for different IT environments. It features centralized management and supports both hybrid and cloud environments smoothly. Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] is recognized for its rapid VM recovery and user-friendly interface, offering powerful replication and deduplication capabilities beneficial for quick recovery tasks.

Room for Improvement: Acronis Cyber Protect users report challenges with lengthy installations and resource-intensive processes, suggesting a need for improved interface usability and support responsiveness. For Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL], feedback highlights concerns over expensive licensing and limited flexibility in physical backups, emphasizing a need for broader platform support and more efficient customer support services.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Acronis Cyber Protect supports flexible deployment within hybrid and cloud settings, catering to varied IT infrastructures, although customer service receives mixed reviews regarding response times. Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] offers easy on-premises deployment but may be limited in scalability. User experiences indicate variable customer support effectiveness, with some difficulties in achieving quick resolutions.

Pricing and ROI: Acronis Cyber Protect is considered cost-effective for enterprises needing robust security features despite recent price increases, providing customizable licensing options to fit user needs. Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] is perceived as more costly, especially for virtual backups, and incurs high maintenance expenses. However, its fast recovery solutions offer significant ROI for critical applications, offsetting the higher initial costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Protect

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

123

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (11th), Cloud Backup (6th)

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

Mohamed Naeem

Responsible for Internet Technology Development at College of International Transport & Logistics - CITLC

Has ensured reliable data protection and quick recovery across various industries

The features of Acronis Cyber Protect that I find most useful for my customers are the Vault, data protection, and the ability to protect and access data anytime with the Vault feature. The AI-based antimalware feature in Acronis Cyber Protect is very effective in preventing cyber threats. AI is a good asset in protecting cybersecurity because it provides inception into threats and how to react with them before securing. It is very important and a great asset as a feature. The biggest benefit of Acronis Cyber Protect for my customers is that it is a great asset to protect business data and ensure data is in a secure Vault. Users can gain access to their data anytime. My future work will require mobility, so cloud-based access to data will be very beneficial.

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Juan LuisNuñez

Engineering Director at MC Microcomputación

Efficient data protection with seamless integration for virtual environments

With the evolution of the product, I don't have to wait for a snapshot, a zero snapshot. 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 solution is fully integrated. I have three products in one: PowerEdge Server, the software, and the compression and deduplication features of the data domain integrated in just one solution.

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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

"Acronis Backup is easy to use, intuitive, and has high performance."

"Acronis Backup is easy to use."

"Stability is always good. I have used Acronis for 10 years now, if not more. I have never had a problem with availability, etc."

"The backup timing and restoring process is great compared to other options."

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

"The ability to clone backups."

"The Acronis panel is user friendly and tracking backups across a number of different devices is great. Acronis provides prompts and reminders to users if certain files are not backed up."

"It is a very fast and reliable backup, which requires less management and restores quickly."

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"Built-in encryption helps to secure our data as it travels from our on-site server to our off-site backup server."

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

"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 solution offers a 100% guarantee that if it's backed up you will be able to restore it onto any platform you want."

"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 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."

"One feature I found that's the most valuable in Quest Rapid Recovery is the VM standby feature which is very useful for my current customer. The solution also has a great replication feature. The third most valuable feature in Quest Rapid Recovery is the five-minute RPO and the fifteen-minute RTO. The solution is also very user-friendly."

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

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Cons

"The reporting can be improved."

"There are a lot of products out there that are a little bit stronger than Acronis where AV is concerned."

"Acronis Backup can improve on the virtualization backups because they are not as good as Veeam Backup."

"Acronis has some limitations on the cloud side."

"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."

"This might be a lack of understanding on my part, but it's difficult to purge old backups."

"When you are using enterprise hardware and software that increases over time, there need to be better and more management features. For pure backup software, it is fine, but when it comes to managing a large infrastructure it is lacking."

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

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"In terms of what needs improvement in Quest Rapid Recovery, though the solution is seamless, right now, they are just giving the software which means we'll need to arrange the hardware. If they can combine the appliance and software, that would be a great approach. In the next release of Quest Rapid Recovery, it would be great if they'd add a folder backup feature because only a snapshot backup feature is available at the moment."

"Rapid Recovery can only backup the machine or disc, but it can't back up from folders, and files, and things like that."

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

"It's not really Quest's fault, but the only issue that I had during the time when I was doing a lot of our restores is whenever the server reboots, it has to bring all of the repositories back in again, which takes around five to six hours to pull eight terabytes back in again."

"There could be better space management for incremental data. When you use incremental data, the space in the appliance keeps on going up. There should be a better way to manage the space. You have to manage the incremental data to reduce the time."

"You can only take a snapshot from a virtual environment. It should have the ability to take snapshots from both a virtual and physical environment."

"Sometimes, when we have certain batches for Windows, it needs to be restarted. When it's restarted, the service is configured as a delayed start. Sometimes, you need to wait too long until it rights itself, or you have to do it manually."

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

"Acronis Backup is cheaper. If you install it on a hypervisor, you only pay for a single license. It would be for the backup server, and everything else will be covered by it. In that sense, it becomes a much cheaper option. However, if you have virtual machines, then it can be more expensive. Also, if you have a lot of physical machines the cost can be higher because each entity will need a separate license. There is a monthly license cost."

"Our licenses come with a one-time yearly subscription fee."

"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."

"There is a license required for this solution and it can be on a monthly basis."

"I would describe the product as a mid-priced tool for small and medium businesses."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"Acronis Cyber Protect's pricing is reasonable."

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"I'm not aware of the exact cost of Quest Rapid Recovery because I'm from the technical team, but in general, the solution is quite competitive cost-wise."

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

"The pricing is on the higher end."

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

11%

Performing Arts

10%

Computer Software Company

Non Profit

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	67
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	23

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	2

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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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 [EOL] provides easy-to-use backup and recovery capabilities, emphasizing granular recovery and point-in-time restoration with simple installation, data replication, and user-friendly navigation.

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] helps manage infrastructure environments with features supporting disk backup, archiving, VM standby, and replication. Despite limitations like sluggish GUI, lack of support for tape and Mac, and high memory use, users appreciate its real-time data replication and strong reliability. The tool is employed in on-prem deployments and aids in disaster recovery, protecting data across cloud and on-premise servers, securing databases, and facilitating quick recovery during failures.

What are Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]'s key features?

Ease of Use: Simplifies operations with a user-friendly interface.
Granular Recovery: Allows detailed data retrieval.
Point-in-Time Restoration: Enables specific time data recovery.
Real-time Replication: Ensures up-to-date data replication.
Compression and Deduplication: Streamlines data management.

What benefits can users expect from Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]?

Improved Storage Efficiency: Enhanced by archiving and disk backup support.
Flexibility: Utilizing VM standby and replication features.
Reliability: Offers fast emergency recovery with minimal admin burden.

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] is integral for industries requiring robust data protection, encompassing crucial server and database backups in compliance-focused environments with SQL databases and Hyper-V hosts, ensuring swift and dependable recovery solutions.

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