Vinchin Helps CAS Implement a Scientific Backup Strategy

Not only has Vinchin solved the challenges faced by the Information Center in terms of disaster recovery, but it has also provided us with strong support for our future digital transformation. Thanks to Vinchin's innovative spirit and professional technology, we have become more determined and confident on the road of research informatization.

Mr. Li

IT Manager

Business Challenge

The Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was established in March 1995, which is a research, development, construction, operation and service guarantee organization for scientific research and management informatization.

The Information Center is the birthplace of China's Internet. On April 20, 1994, a 64K international private line was connected to the Internet from the Center, realizing China's full-featured connection to the Internet, and China has since become the 77th country with a full-featured Internet.

Under the multi-cloud architecture of hybrid virtualization and coexistence, the Information Center has thousands of virtual machines and petabyte data volume, but due to the lack of effective backup mechanism, the risk of data loss always exists; In addition, the demand for partitioned backup of business systems in different regions and the centralized management of the two virtualization platforms have increased the complexity of backup. At present, it is necessary to formulate a scientific backup strategy, establish a backup management system for massive data, realize off-site disaster recovery, ensure system scalability, to provide strong support for the disaster recovery solution of two places and three centers.

Vinchin Solution

Vinchin Backup & Recovery provides highly reliable backup and recovery functions for information centers' data backup needs. With agentless backup and recovery of VMs, Vinchin can help information centers meet the challenge of massive VM backup and significantly reduce manual operation and maintenance costs. Meanwhile, relying on permanent incremental backup, LAN-Free transfer, multi-thread concurrency and deep effective data extraction, Vinchin can greatly improve the efficiency of petabyte-level data backup and provide solid support for the data protection of information centers.

In terms of disaster recovery, Vinchin provides an off-site copy function, supporting the transfer of local backup data to an off-site disaster recovery center to achieve double data protection. Even if the production system and local backup data are lost at the same time, the core business can be quickly recovered through emergency takeover, which fully meets the equipoise compliance requirements and provides a strong guarantee for business continuity.

In addition, Vinchin's instant recovery function can pull up the VM business system in seconds without modifying the original backup data, minimizing the risk of business interruption due to disaster or failure. Combined with regular disaster drills and a visual disaster recovery monitoring center, operation and maintenance personnel can control the status of the backup system in real time, analyze data efficiently and respond to problems quickly, which comprehensively improves the information center's decision-making efficiency and execution power in disaster recovery management

Result

Vinchin Backup & Recovery effectively meets the challenges of multi-cloud architectures in information centers with reliable backup and recovery functions, improves the efficiency of petabyte-level data backup and reduces operation and maintenance costs. The off-site copy function realizes double data protection, rapid recovery of business systems and guarantees business continuity. In addition, instant recovery, disaster drill and visual monitoring functions comprehensively enhance operation and maintenance management and data security, becoming a solid backing for disaster recovery management of information centers.