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Empowering Data Resilience with Info2soft

December 15, 2025 — 16:00 Beijing (GMT+8) 07:00 UTC | 08:00 CET | 02:00 EST

Comprehensive Informix Database Backup, Recovery & Replication

Offer enterprise-level backup, replication and disaster recovery solution. Secure hundreds or even thousands of Informix databases with confidence.

Informix Data Protection Challenges

Informix provides native tools - ontape for data protection. However, the native data protection tools show some limitations and shortcomings that make them inadequate for today’s business environment.
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Unified and Automated Informix Backup

The i2Backup software of Information2 provides an automated and reliable backup method, which is designed to meet the strict protection requirements of modern Informix database environments.
Comprehensive Informix Backup
i2Backup offers a user-friendly interface that simplifies backup setup, scheduling and management. Easily add all Informix instances and create backup tasks for critical data such as Dbspaces and logical logs.
Automated Backup
Unified scheduling across multiple backup domains. You can configure backup schedule for dozens or hundreds of instances to run backup automatically. Significantly reduce manual intervention and administrative overhead.
Incremental Backup
Based on a full Informix backup (Level 0 backup), i2Backup can perform incremental and differential backups by capturing only changed or newly added data. This effectively reduce backup storage and backup time.
Multi-Storage Flexibility
i2Backup is perfect for hybrid or multi-cloud enterprise environments. Administrators can backup Informix databases to local disks, SAN/NAS, object storage (AWS S3, Azure Blob, etc.)
Scalable for future
Backup nodes can be scaled out when i2Bakup needs to back up rapidly growing data to meet the demands of modern Informix business environments effortlessly.
High-efficiency Transmission
Perform Informix DB backups in parallel with no disturbing the production environment. Optimize backup performance by transmission compression, bandwidth control features.

What Makes i2Backup Stand Out?

With i2Backup’s flexible recovery types, we deliver a high-efficient Informix recovery capability and keep your database readily available.
Interactive Recovery Guide
Ensure accuracy and reduce errors with step-by-step recovery workflows. The intuitive interface walk DBAs through every step of the restore process.
Point-in-time recovery
Support recovery to a specified point in time and recovery to a specified Informix backup set.
Cross-machine recovery
Fast Informix recovers to the original location or another host to ensure business continuity even if the primary server is destroyed.

Informix High-Availability Data Replication

For improved availability, fault tolerance and load balancing, Information2 offers Informix replication solution - i2Stream that enables you create and maintain multiple copies of Informix database.
Cross-platform synchronization with other Informix, DB2, MySQL, Oracle, etc.
Support one-to-one and one-to-many Informix enterprise replication.
No shutdown required during database replication.
Real-time sync (even to remote location) to achieve near-zero RPO and RTO in minutes.

Unified Console for Easy Management

Easily handle Informix data protection of varying sizes on a unified web console. It provides robust capabilities and visibility, making backup and replication management simple and scalable.
Clear Graphical Interface
A clear and visualized dashboard enables you to monitor the states and progress of all backup and replication tasks.
Timely Notification
Enable automatic email sending to keep the administrator updated on task progress and quickly spot or resolve possible problems.
Backup Version Management
Allow customizable retention policies to enable automatic cleanup of obsolete Infomix backups to optimize storage space.

How We Guarantee Database Security Level

Information2's solution includes multi-layered security mechanisms to protect Informix databases from ransomware, insider attacks, and assure compliance.
Immutable Backup
Adopt “Write once, read many” approach to ensure Informix backup is available for recovery. So, your backups can’t be modified or deleted by ransomware.
Role-based Access Control
Administrators can assign view, add, modify, delete or other permissions to team members. This simplifies security management and enhances efficiency greatly.
Encrypted Transmission
Use industry-standard encryption techniques to safeguard data while it's in transit. To guarantee safe and legal data transfers, we enable AES and SM4 encryption for backup and replication procedures.
Configuration Backup
To guarantee total backup continuity, support backing up configuration files and metadata to a remote host. This way, you may recover all tasks, operations, and settings in the event that the console server files or data are lost.

Choose the Best Solution for Informix Environment

i2Backup
Unified and automated backup and recovery solution for Informix databases
i2Stream
Synchronous and semantic-level replication solution to sync data between Informix and different databases
i2Migration
Seamless migrates Informix database to a new server or another platform, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc.

FAQs about Informix Data Protection

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