Vinchin Features: See How Vinchin Protects Your Workloads

Agentless Backup

Vinchin agentless backup supports various mainstream virtual machines and allows you bulk add virtual machines and create backup jobs in the backup system.

Full Backup

Vinchin full backup can create a complete copy of a VM, disk, file system, etc. to help you protect all kinds of workloads in data center.

Differential Backup

Vinchin differentialbackup is method to reduce backup data size by comparing to the last full backup to help increase backup efficiency.

Forever Incremental Backup

Vinchin forever incremental backup creates long backup chain which begins with a full backup and followed by incremental backups.

Backup Data deduplication

Vinchin Backup & Recovery provide depduplication option to let you decide whether to deduplicate the data which is ready to be written into the backup storage to save storage.

Incremental Backup

Vinchin incremental backup is created based on the last backup, avoiding saving full copy every time and facilitate saving much backup storage.

Backup Data Compression

Vinchin Backup & Recovery provides 4 levels of compression options to let you decide compress how much data according to your backup plan.

SAN Backup

Vinchin SAN backup (LAN-free backup) allows you to backup the production systems via storage area network so the performance of production system won’t be affected.

Backup Data Archive

Vinchin Backup & Recovery allows you to archive the existing backup data to public cloud and easily retrieve the full recovery point when needed.

Scheduled Backup

Vinchin Backup & Recovery allows you to create schedules in every backup jobs to let every full, incremental, and differential backup triggered automatically.

Throttling Policy

Vinchin throttling policy allows you to set the data transfer limitations of every backup jobs to mitigate the burden of network and impact on production system.

Backup Retention Policy

Vinchin backup retention policy allows you to retain backup data according to by day, by number of backup points or even directly create a GFS retention policy.

Backup Data Encryption

Vinchin data encryption options include encrypting the backup itself and the process of data transmission to enhance data security in the whole process.

Backup Filter

When backing up files, you can quickly exclude or include any files in the whole machine according to file names or file formats with wildcards.

Custom Data Block Size

Vinchin Backup & Recovery supports customize data block size to divide backup data to blocks for better operation to deduplication, compression, etc.

Pre-Create Snapshot

Vinchin pre-create snapshot is used in the job containing multiple VMs, creating the snapshot of the target VM when the last VM’s data is transmitted to enhance overall efficiency.

Serial Snapshot

Vinchin serial snapshot can take snapshots of multiple VMs in the backup job one by one to minimize the impact on the host caused by concurrency.

Parallel Snapshot

Vinchin parallel snapshot can take snapshots of all VMs in the job simultaneously to ensure that the restore points are created the same point in time.

Quiesced Snapshot

Vinchin quiesced snapshot can call the virtualization platform’s API to flushed from the operating system’s memory to the disk ensure data consistent and usability.

Automatic Reconnection

If the network fails, Vinchin backup system will automatically attempt to reconnect and then seamlessly resume data transfer.

Log Backup

Vinchin Log Backup captures a database’s transaction logs or archived redo logs and lets you recover the database to a specific point in time.

Tape Backup

Vinchin allows you to directly backup workloads’ data or archive backup data to tape for long-term retention.

Breakpoint Resume

In continuous backups, if the target host restarts due to a fault, Vinchin's breakpoint resume ensures the backup continues from the interruption point, avoiding retransmission of completed parts.

Heartbeat Detection

In CDP tasks, VInchin can periodically sends heartbeat packets to the host and checks for its respones with a preset time limit to determine whether the host is normally and trigger a failover.

Real-Time Replication

Vinchin can continuously capture host disk I/O operations in real-time and replicate the data disk to a standby machine to for later failover.

Skipping Inaccessible & Offline Data Files

When backing up Oracle databases, Vinchin supports skipping inaccessible or offline data files to improve backup reliability and shorten the backup window.

BCT

When backing up Oracle databases, Vinchin supports enable BCT to avoid full scans by only scanning changed blocks, improving incremental backup efficiency.

Manually Start Backup Job

When you create a backup job, Vinchin provides an option in the backup strategy settings to start the task manually.

Automatic Recovery

Using the Job Orchestration feature, Vinchin can automatically restore production workloads to their most recent backup on a regular schedule.

Object Storage List Refreshing

Vinchin supports manually or automatically refreshing the list of added object storage resources to retrieve their latest connection status, ensuring that the resource status is updated.

Task Load by Hour

Vinchin supports displaying the time distribution of existing jobs when creating a new job, making it easy to understand the backup system's busy and idle periods.

Skip Objects Alert

Vinchin supports customizable alert threshold settings. When the number or percentage of skipped objects exceeds the defined threshold, the system automatically generates an alert.

Proprietary Linux Snapshot

Vinchin uses self-developed Linux snapshot technology to keep data consistent on Linux hosts.

Mass File Merge & Transfer

Vinchin groups vast file sets and transfers them as one, boosting transfer efficiency.

Mass Remote Agent Install

Vinchin lets you remotely install agents on multiple clients in one go, streamlining rollout.

Virtual Full Backup

Vinchin logically merges all incremental points into a full restore point, so you can recover instantly without runtime merging.

Mass-Scale File & Folder Backup

Vinchin handles backups of hundreds of millions of files and folders seamlessly, making large-scale data protection effortless.

Wildcard Filter

Vinchin lets you use wildcards to include or exclude backup sources, giving flexible control over what gets backed up.

Snapshot-Based Backup

Vinchin creates crash-consistent snapshots during backup to ensure data integrity.

SQL Server Integrity Check

Vinchin can enable SQL Server’s integrity check feature to verify database pages and backup files, ensuring your data isn’t corrupted.

Database Source Compression

Vinchin supports Oracle/SQL Server source compression, and with the built-in compression it can cut data size by about 70%.

File Permission Backup

Vinchin lets you backup file permissions so they’re preserved on restore to make sure your data stays secure with right permission.

Sparse Files Backup

Vinchin can backup only the actual or used parts of sparse files (valid data) but restore the full original data when needed.

Index Caching

After an Exchange email backup, index data is cached. This speeds up viewing recovery details, makes searches faster, and reduces cloud storage traffic.

Full VM Recovery

Vinchin Backup & Recovery supports VM-level recovery to let you recover all the data including its operating system and applications’ data to quickly recover business.

Automatic Boot After Recovery

Vinchin Backup & Recovery allows you to select whether to automatically boot the VM after recovery to shorten the process of data recovery.

Specify Recovery Storage

Vinchin Backup & Recovery allows to reconfigure the storage of a VM before recovery for more efficient allocation of resources and storage.

Specify Recovery Network

Vinchin Backup & Recovery supports reconfiguring the network of a VM to any network in the cluster before recovery to avoid network conflicts and resource misallocation.

Instant Recovery

Vinchin instant recovery is a technology that quickly restores a failed virtual machine from its backup to greatly shortening recovery and booting time.

Cross-Platform Recovery

Vinchin cross-platform recovery allows you to directly recover VM to another virtualization platform to perform V2V migration.

Granular Recovery

Vinchin granular recovery allows you to directly extract files from the VM backup, performing file-level recovery to increase recovery efficiency.

OS Instant Recovery

Vinchin OS instant recovery allows you to quickly recover the data disk, extract files from OS, and migrate data to another server.

Failover

With data replication and heartbeat detection mechanisms, the standby machine can automatically take over the business in the event of the a host failure.

Failback

After the standby machine takes over, you can use one-click failback to switch the data disk back to the primary host once it's restored, ensuring business continuity.

Instance Type Change

During cloud instance recovery, Vinchin allows users to select different instance types to adjust the configuration of the restored instance.

Volume Recovery

When you restore a physical machine or cloud instance, you can pick one or more volumes to restore, making recovery much faster.

Instance Network Modifying

During cloud instance recovery, Vinchin enables users to adjust network configurations such as VPCs, subnets, and security groups.

Priority Snapshot Recovery

When restoring a cloud instance, if a snapshot exists in the target region for the selected point in time, Vinchin prioritizes restoring by creating a volume from that snapshot.

Custom Oracle Recovery

When restoring an Oracle database, Vinchin supports on-demand recovery of the entire database or specified tables, enabling you to recover only the target data.

Automatic Database Startup

Vinchin supports automatically opening the database after a restore, saving time on manual startup and configuration.

Automatic Recovery

Vinchin's automatic recovery lets you schedule restores to the latest backup automatically.

Bare-Metal Restore

You can boot from a Live CD to restore your OS backup to another physical machine. Easily move data or recover from a machine failure.

Repartition on Restore

Vinchin handles partition rebuilding during data restore, ensuring an accurate disk layout without extra steps.

Cross-Cluster Recovery

Vinchin allows you to restore virtual machines to any cluster in the backup system, making full use of IT resources.

Rebuild Oracle Configurations

When you restore Oracle RAC to a single instance, you can rebuild the listener, tnsnames.ora, and sqlnet.ora network files and reset the SYS passwords.

Skip directory Tree

When restoring files, you can tick the ones you want and turn on “Skip directory tree” so it won’t recreate their parent folders.

Invalid Shortcuts Cleanup

When restoring files, Vinchin will check if shortcuts point to existing files or directories and automatically removes any broken shortcuts.

Identity Verification

Vinchin will require account credentials when restoring Exchange emails to verify identity and enhance data security.

Email Searching

When restoring Exchange emails, you can search the entire backup by time, user, directory, data category, folder, attachment, keyword, and more.

Single/Batches Email Recovery

When recovering Exchange emails, Vinchin lets you restore single emails or batches of emails, boosting both efficiency and flexibility.

Backup Storage Protection

Vinchin backup storage protection is able to prevent backup data in the direct storage from being altered by malware to enhance data protection level.

Built-in DR Lab

There is a built-in DR lab in Vinchin Backup & Recovery to let you verify backup data to ensure the recovered VM can be started and even recover VM directly in the backup system.

Automated Alert

You can add an email to Vinchin Backup & Recovery to receive notification when there are any abnormal jobs in the systems to fix any issues in time.

Data Visualization Dashboard

There is a data virtualization dashboard (Data-V) in the web console of Vinchin Backup & Recovery to let you easily view every jobs and system conditions in this system.

Multithreaded Transmission

Vinchin multithreaded transmission allows you to configure threads when creating backup and recovery jobs to increase the efficiency of data transmission.

Multi-Process Task Execution

Vinchin Backup & Recovery supports running independent jobs for different backup and recovery job when they are running simultaneously to increase system stability.

Distributed Deployment

Vinchin distributed deployment can let you easily scale the computing power by installing nodes on every datacenter to efficiently backup the expanded IT environment.

Offsite Copy

You can create an offsite copy of backup and or even the existing offsite copy to store it in another datacenter to ensure there is always available backup data.

Job Orchestration

Vinchin allows you to automate various kinds of job chains including backup and automated verification job to make the job flow smarter.

VM backup verification

Vinchin allows you to manually or automatically verify your VM backup in an isolated environment to ensure its recoverability.

Access Key

In an MSP scenario, tenants can quickly and securely connect to the backup system by simply entering an Access Key, with client assignment and configuration completed automatically.

Isolated Network

Vinchin can use an isolated bridged network adapter to create an isolated network for the DR lab, ensuring that verifying VM backup data won't affect the production network.

Compatible Drivers

When creating a VM in the virtual lab, Vinchin ensures the target host's drivers are installed in the VM to prevent compatibility issues during actual data recovery.

Boot Repair

When creating a VM in the DR Lab, Vinchin will repair the MBR and boot loader so the VM can load the operating system correctly and start up smoothly.

Backup Data Stitching

When restoring a VM in the DR Lab, Vinchin combines the backup data into a single RAW virtual disk file, which is then used as the disk for the recovered VM.

Cgroup Resouces Isolation

Vinchin can use cgroups technology to limit CPU weights and quotas and set memory caps, preventing backup servers from being over-utilized.

Batch Backup Copy

Vinchin lets you add multiple backup jobs to a single replication task, making it easy to create backup copies in bulk.

Batch Start Tasks

With Vinchin, you can launch several backup tasks simultaneously in one click, streamlining operations.

Automatic Copy

Vinchin supports automatically creating a copy after each backup is completed, ensuring that you always have the most up-to-date copy.

Auto Archive

Vinchin supports triggering archiving right after backup completion, ensuring timely data retention.

Apply Existing Policy

Vinchin allows applying an existing job orchestration strategy to new jobs without reconfiguration.

Backup Copy Archive

Vinchin lets you archive backup copies to tape, public cloud, and other storage, ensuring your data stays safely protected.

Secondary Copy Creation

Vinchin lets you create a new copy from an existing backup copy for extra redundancy.

GFS Retention

Vinchin uses the Grandfather‑Father‑Son retention scheme to keep weekly, monthly, and yearly backups, letting you store VM backups longer with minimal space.

Backup Data Import

After a disaster, you can redeploy Vinchin Backup & Recovery and import your backup data to the backup system to quickly restore your data.