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Windows 11 comes with built-in backup features, but are they sufficient to protect your business? The short answer is no. While Microsoft provides basic tools like Backup and Restore and File History, these solutions lack the comprehensive protection that modern businesses need. That's why palmiq has partnered with Acronis to deliver enterprise-grade backup and cyber protection for Windows 11 environments, without the enterprise-level complexity.
Before exploring better solutions, let's understand what Windows 11 actually offers, and where it falls short.
OneDrive: Sync, Not BackupMany users assume OneDrive provides true backup protection. In reality, it's a synchronization service. While convenient for accessing files across devices, OneDrive has a critical flaw: if you delete a file from your primary device, it's removed from OneDrive during the next sync cycle. You can't recover files lost to corruption or accidental deletion beyond a limited recovery window. For businesses with large data volumes, OneDrive's folder sync can also create serious storage issues across all connected devices.
Backup and RestoreThis feature creates full-image backups of your Windows 11 system, including the operating system, applications, and data. However, it only allows you to recover the complete image, you can't selectively restore individual files or folders without restoring everything. Microsoft recommends using this primarily to create recovery drives for reinstalling Windows 11.
File History
File History backs up selected files and folders to an external drive, allowing more granular recovery. But it requires an external storage device to remain connected, offers no cloud backup option, and provides limited scheduling flexibility.
Windows 11's built-in tools create significant vulnerabilities for businesses:
If a fire, flood, or ransomware attack destroys your computer, your local Windows backups are likely destroyed too. For businesses, this limitation isn't just inconvenien, it's potentially catastrophic.
Professional backup solutions operate differently than Windows' basic tools. When you perform an initial backup, the software replicates your entire system, operating system, applications, and all data. Subsequent backups use incremental or differential methods, capturing only changes since the last backup. This approach saves time and storage space while maintaining complete protection.
True business continuity requires following the 3-2-1 backup rule: three copies of your data, on two different media types, with one copy stored offsite (typically in the cloud). Windows 11 native tools can't achieve this standard.
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As an MSP partner of Acronis, palmiq integrates Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud into our managed IT services, delivering the comprehensive Windows 11 backup and cyber protection that native tools can't provide.
Complete System Protection
Acronis creates full-image backups of your entire Windows 11 environment; OS, applications, settings, and data, while also enabling flexible recovery. Unlike Windows Backup and Restore, you can restore your complete system OR selectively recover individual files and folders from any backup point. One solution, complete flexibility.
True Cloud Backup with Military-Grade Encryption
Your Windows 11 backups are automatically stored in Acronis' secure cloud with AES-256 encryption. Even Acronis can't access your data, only you hold the keys. This cloud backup remains safe when physical disasters strike your office, and it's protected from ransomware attacks that target your local network.
The 3-2-1 Rule, Automated
palmiq configures your backup strategy to automatically maintain three copies of your data: your production system, a local backup for quick recovery, and an encrypted cloud backup for disaster scenarios. This industry best practice is built into every deployment.
Integrated Cyber Protection
Here's where Acronis truly differentiates itself: backup and cybersecurity in one platform. While Windows Defender and Windows Backup operate separately, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud integrates AI-powered threat detection with backup functionality. The system:
When ransomware strikes, you don't just recover from backup, the system actively prevents the attack and automatically heals compromised files.
Beyond Windows: Complete Business Protection
Modern businesses run on more than Windows PCs. Our Acronis solution protects:
One partner, one platform, complete protection across your entire technology ecosystem.
Flexible Scheduling
Unlike File History's limited options (10 minutes to 24 hours), Acronis offers granular scheduling that adapts to your business needs, hourly, daily, weekly, or continuous data protection that captures changes in real-time.
Intelligent Retention Policies
palmiq configures smart retention rules that balance protection with storage efficiency. Keep daily backups for a week, weekly backups for a month, and monthly backups for years, automatically managed without manual intervention.
Bootable Recovery Media
We create bootable USB drives or ISOs that can restore your entire Windows 11 system to new hardware if needed. If your computer is destroyed or stolen, you're not starting from scratch, you're restoring your complete environment to a new device within hours.
Rapid Disaster Recovery
Every minute of downtime costs money. Acronis enables fast full-system recovery or instant file restoration, getting your business back online quickly. Our local backup copies provide rapid recovery for common issues, while cloud backups ensure you can recover from any disaster scenario.
Universal Restore
Need to restore your Windows 11 backup to completely different hardware? Acronis' Universal Restore feature handles driver differences and hardware changes, enabling recovery to dissimilar systems, critical when your original hardware is unavailable.
Technology is only valuable when properly implemented and managed. Here's how palmiq ensures your Windows 11 backup strategy actually works:
Our team evaluates your current backup approach, identifies vulnerabilities, and designs a custom protection strategy aligned with your business requirements, compliance needs, and budget.
We handle complete deployment:
We don't just set up backups, we verify they work. Our team conducts test recoveries to ensure you can actually restore data when needed. Many businesses discover their backups are unusable only when disaster strikes. We eliminate that risk.
As your MSP, palmiq provides:
Disaster doesn't wait for business hours. Our team provides round-the-clock support for backup and recovery needs, ensuring you can restore critical data whenever necessary.
Scenario 1: Ransomware Attack
A phishing email compromises an employee's Windows 11 laptop. Ransomware spreads across the network, encrypting files on the local machine and any connected network drives, including Windows Backup and Restore destinations.
Scenario 2: Hardware Failure
Your employee's laptop hard drive fails completely during a critical project deadline.
Scenario 3: Accidental Deletion
An employee accidentally deletes an important folder and empties the recycle bin. The deletion syncs to OneDrive before they realize the mistake.
Scenario 4: Office Fire
A fire destroys your office, including all computers and local backup drives.
Scenario 5: Microsoft 365 Data Loss
A departing employee maliciously deletes critical emails and SharePoint documents. Microsoft's retention policies don't cover your recovery needs.
Proven MSP Expertise
We specialize in managed IT services, cybersecurity, and cloud transformation for small and mid-sized businesses, government agencies, and enterprises. Our team brings deep technical knowledge and real-world experience to every engagement.
Tailored to Your Industry
Whether you're in finance, education, professional services, or government, we understand your compliance requirements, operational constraints, and business-critical systems. Your backup strategy reflects your unique needs, not a one-size-fits-all template.
Complete IT Ecosystem
Backup works best when integrated with comprehensive IT management. As your MSP, we provide network security, endpoint management, cloud services, and proactive monitoring, creating a cohesive environment where backup is just one layer of your defense-in-depth strategy.
Cost-Effective Enterprise Protection
Through our Acronis partnership, you gain access to partner-exclusive pricing and scalable solutions. You get enterprise-grade protection at SMB-friendly costs, with flexible licensing that grows with your business.
Local Support, Global Technology
You work with a dedicated local team that knows your business, backed by Acronis' world-class technology trusted by over 500,000 businesses globally. When you call, you reach our team, not a distant call center.
Don't wait for a disaster to expose the gaps in Windows 11 native backup. Here's how to get started with palmiq and Acronis:
Step 1: Free Backup Assessment
Contact palmiq for a complimentary evaluation of your current backup and disaster recovery posture. We'll identify vulnerabilities and quantify your risk exposure.
Step 2: Custom Solution Design
We'll design a backup and cyber protection strategy tailored to your business requirements, compliance needs, and budget—no generic templates.
Step 3: Seamless Implementation
Our team handles deployment, configuration, and testing with minimal disruption to your operations. Most clients are fully protected within days.
Step 4: Ongoing Protection and Support
Once deployed, we monitor, manage, and optimize your backup environment continuously, with 24/7 support when you need assistance.
Windows 11's built-in backup tools provide basic functionality, but they're insufficient for business-critical data protection. The lack of cloud backup, vulnerability to cyberattacks, inability to protect Microsoft 365, and limited recovery options create unacceptable risk.
PalmIQ's partnership with Acronis delivers what Windows can't: comprehensive cyber protection that combines full-system backup, flexible recovery, cloud storage, and integrated cybersecurity, all managed by experienced MSP professionals who ensure your backup strategy actually works when you need it.
Your data is your business. Protect it properly.
Contact palmiq today to schedule your free backup assessment and discover how Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud can transform your Windows 11 backup from a basic feature into true business continuity.
