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 Oct 26, 2025

Acronis Cyber Protect and Quest Rapid Recovery compete in the data protection and backup software domain, with Acronis offering superior features like universal restore and data synchronization.

Features:Acronis Cyber Protect stands out with scheduling backups, seamless data synchronization, and universal restore capabilities, supporting multiple operating systems such as Windows and Linux. It offers diverse backup options including incremental, full, and differential backups. Quest Rapid Recovery is known for its effective virtualization capabilities, especially for mounting and replicating virtual environments, making it suitable for smaller enterprises.

Room for Improvement:Acronis Cyber Protect faces criticism for its lengthy installation process and significant disk space requirements, along with data decryption challenges affecting recovery speeds. Product version inconsistencies also pose issues. Quest Rapid Recovery is hindered by its limited support and complexity in backing up specific files and folders. Its integration features need enhancement, and it lacks file-level backup capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Acronis Cyber Protect offers flexible deployment across hybrid, public, private clouds, and on-premises settings, while Quest Rapid Recovery is restricted to on-premises, limiting scalability. Both receive mixed reviews for customer service, though Acronis supporters note more consistency in quality and responsiveness compared to Quest's less effective support staff.

Pricing and ROI:Acronis Cyber Protect is perceived as cost-effective for SMBs due to flexible licensing models and reasonable support fees, despite feedback on overall pricing competitiveness. Quest Rapid Recovery is considered expensive for virtual backup offerings but remains competitively priced against peers like Datto. Acronis provides more predictable pricing structures, while Quest demands higher costs for extra features and storage capacities.

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Protect

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

124

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (13th), Cloud Backup (7th)

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

ArunKumar24

Chairman at ONGC

Reliable image backups have protected our HMIs and simplified on‑premises recovery

We have not tried the vulnerability assessment feature yet because we have a different set of protocols for our cybersecurity. We conduct audits and plug the gaps as part of our security approach. We are not using AI with the anti-malware from Acronis; we are using it only for backup and recovery. On the backup and restoration side with Acronis Backup, some on-premises AI features which can detect anomalies may be something which would improve the product significantly. Otherwise, we are not very comfortable with cloud-based solutions at this time. We are looking for products which are entirely on-premises, so they remain within our control.

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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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Pros

"One of the most valuable features of Acronis is its AnyData Engine which allows any device to connect to any other device for the purpose of data restoration."

"For my first experience, it is the best software for backups, especially for a five-system backup."

"The AI-based antimalware feature in Acronis Cyber Protect is very effective in preventing cyber threats, providing inception into threats and how to react with them before securing, and is a great asset as a feature."

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

"For me, the cost is a significant advantage."

"For local backups, it has options to back up almost any storage. The back can be either a shared folder or anything you want, it's pretty flexible."

"The administration is pretty flexible in terms of defining a multi-tenant type of setup."

"Some of the most valuable features are recovery, protection against malware, and software management. I am happy with the dashboards and user interface."

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"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 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."

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

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

"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 is the disaster recovery process from the data center."

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Cons

"In the span of six months, maintenance is done at least twice and you are told that it is coming up, with apologies for the inconvenience. It's a distraction, and it interferes with the backup schedule."

"For smaller companies it's a little more challenging to maintain."

"Acronis has some limitations on the cloud side."

"The solution could be better if some of the features were more in-depth."

"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."

"I've had some issues with the understandability of the interface. I think if they had someone with expertise in user interfaces to look at this, they could clean up the user interface."

"Some of the default settings out-of-the-box should already be set up for the novice user. For instance, the warnings that say a hard drive has bad sectors and stops the backup from performing."

"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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"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"There are monthly fees to use Acronis Backup."

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

"Its price is quite friendly on the pocket. You need to pay the licensing cost upfront, and then the support charges are on an annual basis."

"The pricing model is a little complex to find the right size for what you need. It takes a lot of hours to figure it out."

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

"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."

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

"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 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."

"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."

"The pricing is on the higher end."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

13%

Performing Arts

11%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	68
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	24

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 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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What is your primary use case for Quest Rapid Recovery?

We have sold some of the products to our customers, mainly to remove competitors like Veeam and also other appliances that do not have the whole package integrated into just one appliance.

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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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