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Acronis Cyber Protect — your questions, answered.

The common questions clients ask before, during, and after deployment. No marketing fluff; the answers we'd give on a scoping call.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is the backup, anti-ransomware, and Managed Detection & Response platform whedo.it deploys across every managed-service client. Most of the questions below come up the first time a prospect realises modern ransomware actively targets backup repositories — and the second time when they ask whether immutable storage really lives up to its name. The short answer is yes; the long answers are below. If something here doesn't quite fit your environment, send a note and we'll scope it to what you actually run.

What gets backed up?
Servers (Windows, Linux, VM), endpoints (laptops, workstations), and Microsoft 365 data (Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams). Application-aware backup for SQL Server, Exchange on-prem, Active Directory. Bare-metal restore supported.
How long are backups kept?
30-day immutable retention is the default. Longer retention (90 days, 1 year, 7 years) is available for clients with compliance obligations. Australian data residency across Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane regions.
How often is restore actually tested?
Monthly, against a clean target, with RTO measured and logged. If a restore fails, you find out from us — not from an incident. Annual full-DR drill available as a scoped exercise.
What's the difference between backup and MDR?
Backup is the safety net — if something goes wrong, you can recover. MDR is the watchtower — 24/7 monitoring by the Acronis Security Operations Centre, watching for ransomware behaviour, identity compromise, and threat patterns across endpoints, email and the backup repository itself.
Can the backup be ransomwared?
No. Acronis Active Protection specifically targets the ransomware variants designed to encrypt or delete backups first. Immutable storage means once a backup is written, it cannot be modified or deleted within the retention window — even by an admin account compromised in the attack.
What about Microsoft 365 data?
Backed up separately, on the same platform. Per-user per-month pricing. Restore individual mailboxes, SharePoint sites, OneDrive folders, or Teams chats — granularly, without affecting other users.

Explore the full Acronis Cyber Protect page, or jump to another product's FAQs.

Each product line has its own detail page with pricing and the architecture overview, plus a dedicated FAQ. Same brand voice, same operating cadence across all of them.

Question we didn't answer?
Email whedo.it.

If you've got a Acronis Cyber Protect-specific question that isn't covered above, send a note. Replies typically within the hour, business hours, Perth time. No pitch attached.

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