Case Study: Granite Ridge Builders achieves rapid ransomware recovery and complete system protection with Acronis Backup Advanced

Granite Ridge Builders Protect their Data from Ransomware with Acronis

Granite Ridge Builders, a custom home builder in northern Indiana, faced serious data-protection gaps—relying on OS tools and manual cloud copies that left virtual machines and 4+ TB of CAD and accounting data at risk. Those gaps became real when a RAID failure forced a full server rebuild and idle staff; to close the risk, Granite Ridge Builders selected Acronis (Acronis Backup Advanced and Private Cloud) for comprehensive, agentless Hyper‑V and bare‑metal protection.

Acronis deployed Acronis Backup Advanced with agentless Hyper‑V backups, NAS primary storage and automatic replication to a secondary site using existing fiber/VPN, plus incremental remote backups that complete in about four hours. When SMRSS32 ransomware struck, Granite Ridge Builders erased the infected server and restored from Acronis backups—recovering the accounting team in less than a day, avoiding payment of a ransom and preserving 17 years of data; Acronis’ integrated AI anti‑ransomware protection now further prevents and auto‑restores affected files.

Granite Ridge Builders

Justin Jones

IT Manager