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This guide compares the best Acronis alternatives for 2026, evaluating seven backup and recovery tools across reliability, system footprint, licensing models, and real-world deployment scenarios. It highlights where each platform performs best, from OT and air-gapped environments to virtualized enterprise infrastructures, helping organizations choose the right solution for their backup strategy....

Looking to compare Macrium vs Acronis? Explore the differences in recovery reliability, system imaging, and support for air-gapped and operational environments....

Macrium research reveals that increased spending on cybersecurity in the manufacturing sector may be misplaced, and could lead to a false sense of security for manufacturing organizations. Findings suggest that while cyber threats remain a serious concern, they are only directly responsible for 5% of production outages, while the majority of downtime, costing up to $100,000 per hour, is caused by a widening “recovery gap” – the ability to recover from internal operational failures such as network errors, configuration loss or change, or planned maintenance gone wrong....

Manufacturing resilience rarely fails in the data centre. When things go wrong, the problem is generally where production happens. Yet Macrium’s recently published benchmark report, ‘State of Backup & Recovery in Manufacturing 2026’, highlights a stark imbalance at the heart of many resilience strategies. While most manufacturers have invested heavily in protecting IT workloads, only 54% of OT, ICS, and SCADA systems are backed up at all. The shortfall, the lack of backup protection on almost half of all manufacturing systems, is critical. OT systems are not peripheral. They run production lines, control physical processes, and determine whether operations continue or stop....

According to Macrium’s 2026 State of Backup & Recovery in Manufacturing report, true resilience isn’t measured by how many backups you have – it’s defined by how quickly you can recover when something goes wrong. The benchmark research behind the report shows a sobering gap between perception and reality. While most manufacturers believe they can restore critical systems within their planned timeframes, only 18% actually meet or exceed those targets. ...

Despite what we tend to imagine, the vulnerability most likely to compromise OT resilience is not backup. In the majority of organisations, backup is familiar, well-documented and well-monitored. Yet there is one aspect of recovery planning that even mature environments frequently fail to invest in properly. This is generally not through neglect, but because it is harder to schedule, riskier to test and far easier to put off ‘for tomorrow’....

Macrium Site Manager 8 will reach End of Life (EOL) on 22 January 2026. After this date, it will no longer be supported. This article explains what that means and how to move to Macrium SiteBackup based on your current licence type....

Understanding the difference between full, incremental and differential backups matters far more in operational technology than in traditional IT. This guide explains how each backup type affects downtime, RPO, RTO and recoverability - helping you choose the right approach for OT systems in 2026....

Manufacturers invest heavily in backup systems, yet many discover during a crisis that their recovery plan doesn’t actually work. Here’s the critical validation step most are missing....

Macrium Reflect 8 has served thousands of users reliably for many years. With the launch of Reflect X in October 2024, we began transitioning customers to our latest backup and recovery solution Reflect X. ...