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 7.9, while Quest Software is ranked #37 with an average rating of 8.5. Acronis holds a 4.2% mindshare in BRS, compared to Quest Software’s 0.6% mindshare. 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

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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

6.9

Number of Reviews

122

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (6th)

Quest Rapid Recovery

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

37th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Protect is 4.2%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Quest Rapid Recovery is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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SameerMogale

Independent Business Owner at 3Kay Solutions

Encounter challenges in troubleshooting but experience efficient customer support

The application itself is a bit bloated. Although it has a lot of features when it comes to troubleshooting, we don't basically know where to start even though we do give them the log files to troubleshoot they don't give us a proper solution set. So I would say because it's bloated, it's a bit more difficult to troubleshoot where you get certain errors. From my side, on the POC I didn't really need to do much. It's only after we discovered there was a compatibility issue with the application that the client was running that we actually had to do a lot of log file shipping to Acronis themselves and getting solutions because of other problems. So on a day-to-day basis, you don't even maintain it, you just forget about it. You get alerts, but usually in between. It's quite easy to manage. To be honest with you, since I didn't really test that option of Acronis Cyber Protect, it's supposed to make everything feasible and easy to manage but I never got the option of testing it out, so I cannot really say at this stage.

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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

"It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface."

"Our customers can backup to local storage and they can back up or replicate to the cloud."

"The most valuable feature is the quick restoration. We can restore the data quickly."

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

"The tool is user-friendly."

"Acronis is a flexible solution. It can back up workstations, endpoints, and even your virtual environments and cloud-based environments. So, we can do the backup of the whole gamut of products."

"Their response is quite efficient."

"Since the last version, everything has been improved."

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"The solution's most valuable aspect is its ability to back up a physical server to another physical or virtual server."

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

"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 best feature of the solution is the user interface."

"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."

"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."

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

"The data protection strategy varies on a case-by-case basis, but overall, it's doing well."

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Cons

"The tool's dashboard for daily operations is useful, but I find that it could benefit from enhancements, particularly in terms of reporting. While exporting reports, the format is not fancy as it appears on the dashboard. The exported files are typically in Excel CSV or PDF format."

"I would like to see better centralized management, because I use it across multiple clients. To have a console that centrally manages them would be nice."

"It would be nice to have a partition that I can boot and reinstall when taking a backup image from the operating system."

"If there was a wizard that would lead you down a road, when creating a backup, that would probably be better than having to go online or call somebody to actually do a backup. It's not intuitive..."

"The licensing approach becomes intricate when dealing with SharePoint."

"If I could create a protected image backup on a computer partition that just would be just for the image backup; and only the program could access it to prevent viruses from getting into it. That would be very, very good."

"The replication part and failover are areas in which improvements are required."

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

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"In case, if there is anything, it would be the speed of the operation to be finished. Even then, I can easily work on the storing function before the operation is finished."

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

"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."

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

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

"One area where Quest Rapid Recovery has room for improvement is in the handling of snapshots on Hyper-V."

"The initial setup can be tricky, and if not done right, the whole solution needs to be reinstalled."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing fees are billed annually and there are no extra charges."

"It is a low-cost solution."

"We were on a perpetual license for Acronis Backup."

"This is an affordable product and fits within our customers' budgets."

"Acronis Cyber Protect's pricing is reasonable."

"I find the pricing structure satisfactory, it is around $25 per year."

"Pricing is what it is. I don't shop around once I find a good solution. I insist they maintain ongoing support year after year for updates and tech support."

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

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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"The pricing is on the higher end."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

17%

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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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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