Clean vs Fast Recovery: Why MTCR (Mean Time To Clean Recovery) Matters
Acronis, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
Your backups survived a ransomware attack. Your team restored everything within hours. And three days later, the same malware is back, encrypting the same files, because nobody checked whether those backups were clean before putting them into production.
This is the gap that MTCR (Mean Time to Clean Recovery) exists to close. Where MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery) measures how quickly you restore operations, MTCR measures how quickly you restore operations safely, confirming that every recovered system is verified and malware-free before it touches your production network. The Veeam 2024 Ransomware Trends Report found that 96% of ransomware attacks now target backup repositories directly (Veeam, 2024). If your recovery plan does not account for compromised backups, your recovery plan has a hole in it.