Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud vs CPRemote

Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud provides disaster recovery as a service, launching recovery servers at a secondary site after a natural or man-made disaster. Recovery infrastructure can be managed in Acronis Cloud, Microsoft Azure or a hybrid setup. It supports production failover and automated test failover, including scheduled monthly server tests, while runbooks define steps for starting a client’s production environment in the cloud. The service can extend up to 23 local networks through a secure VPN tunnel or connect in cloud-only mode without a VPN appliance. Listed workloads include Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory, major Linux distributions, and several virtualization platforms. Acronis says clean recovery points can help prevent ransomware reinfection. Cloud servers consume compute points according to configured flavor even when powered off; recovery servers in Standby do not. If the compute-points quota overage is reached, primary and recovery servers shut down. There is no free plan; a 30-day trial is available. Pricing depends on usage and licensing, with no dollar price listed.

CPRemote is cPanel backup software for server administrators and cPanel users. Administrators receive WHM tools, while end users manage backups through a cPanel interface. It supports incremental, compressed, and uncompressed backups with seven days of retention. Destinations include Google Drive, Backblaze B2, Rsync.net, AWS S3, S3-compatible storage, local disk, SSH, FTP, and SFTP. GNU GPG encryption can use user-specific methods. Administrators can create unlimited schedules with filters and hooks, and cPanel users can schedule their own backups. Restores cover full or multiple cPanel accounts, domains, MySQL databases, email accounts, home directories, and individual files or folders. Transfer and download tools are included. Installation requires root access to cPanel 11.122 or higher and a supported Linux distribution. A 15-day trial is listed; Individual costs $5 a month with annual payments only.