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For data-intensive organizations in telecommunications, internet services, and similar sectors, business systems generate enormous volumes of unstructured data every day. Object storage has become the backbone for storing images, files, logs, and application data across these environments.

As data volumes continue to grow, however, traditional data protection approaches are running into new limits. Organizations are asking:

  • How can petabyte-scale object storage be protected reliably and efficiently?
  • How can data be protected consistently across multiple data centers?
  • How can frequently accessed business data be recovered quickly while historical data is retained cost-effectively over the long term?

To address these challenges, a large enterprise worked with Info2soft to build an integrated data resilience framework for its object storage environment. The resulting architecture delivers dual-site, dual-copy protection for production data, tiered archiving for historical data, and fast recovery capabilities that support continuous digital operations.

New Pressures Behind Petabyte-Scale Storage

The organization operates across a broad range of business systems and data centers supporting global operations, and has accumulated a large volume of unstructured data over time.

As digital operations expanded, object storage became a core part of the infrastructure supporting images, files, logs, and application data. But as data volumes climbed into the petabyte range, the organization’s existing protection model began to show its limits.

  • Backup efficiency at scale: With object storage reaching petabyte volumes and object counts growing rapidly, conventional backup methods struggled to keep pace with continuous data growth.
  • Higher demands on reliability and recovery: Core business data needed to do more than simply persist — it needed to be recoverable quickly in the event of a failure.
  • Different data needs different handling: Not all data carries the same business value, requiring a more refined lifecycle management approach that matches protection strategy to data value.
  • Stronger cross-region protection across multiple data centers: The organization needed cross-region replication and multi-copy mechanisms to reduce the impact of single-point failures and regional risk, and to strengthen overall business continuity.

new pressures behind petabyte-scale storage

From Data Storage to Data Resilience

To meet the enterprise’s object storage protection needs, Info2soft built a data resilience framework around i2Backup, its data backup and recovery management platform. The solution was designed around four core objectives: production protection, cross-region replication, long-term archiving, and fast recovery — covering the full data lifecycle.

Efficient Protection for Object Storage at Scale

Using i2Backup’s object storage protection capabilities, Info2soft delivered unified protection management across the enterprise’s object storage environment.

The solution supports full backup of production object storage data along with continuous change capture for incremental protection, and extends to dynamic bucket protection. It preserves object data structure and associated metadata, meeting the demands of petabyte-scale object protection. The result: data that isn’t just stored, but reliably retained.

Dual-Site, Dual-Copy Architecture for Cross-Region Protection

Given the enterprise’s multi-data-center footprint, Info2soft designed a dual-site, dual-copy architecture for cross-region protection.

The architecture uses two core protection nodes, Site A and Site B:

  • Data from Site A is backed up to Site B
  • A replication relationship is established between the two backup domains
  • Site A and Site B serve as protection copies for one another
  • If either data center experiences a disruption, data can be recovered from the other site’s copy

This cross-city redundancy model upgrades protection from single-point coverage to coordinated, multi-center protection.

Dynamic Protection Plus Static Archiving for Lifecycle Management

Info2soft combined dynamic data protection with historical data archiving to build a tiered protection model aligned with data lifecycle needs.

Active business data: continuous protection

For data that changes frequently, the solution uses dynamic bucket protection with incremental synchronization to reduce redundant data transfer and shorten backup windows, keeping high-value business data consistently recoverable.

Historical static data: long-term archiving

For data accessed less frequently but still valuable to retain, historical data is converted to a static state and archived to a separate domain for long-term storage, supporting remote storage and on-demand recovery.

By managing hot and cold data separately, the enterprise allocates protection resources more effectively — meeting long-term retention needs while improving overall management efficiency.

Full Upgrade: From Storage to Recovery-Ready Data

Through this data protection initiative with Info2soft, the enterprise achieved a comprehensive upgrade to its object storage protection framework.

  • Cross-region, dual-copy protection: Site A and Site B now run dynamic bucket backup with incremental synchronization, with each backup domain replicating the other — meaningfully strengthening cross-region data security.
  • Tiered data protection: Combining dynamic protection with static archiving enables differentiated management across data lifecycles, improving overall protection efficiency.
  • Stable, high-throughput backup and archiving: The enterprise has archived more than 3PB of historical data to date, supporting long-term retention and recovery needs at scale.
  • A shift from backup to data resilience: With Info2soft’s platform, the enterprise is progressively replacing its previous backup system, moving from a traditional backup model toward a more flexible, efficient data protection architecture.

From object storage protection to cross-region replication, and from archiving to fast recovery, Info2soft’s integrated data resilience capabilities — spanning backup, replication, disaster recovery, and recovery — help enterprises build the data protection infrastructure their digital operations depend on.

About Info2soft
Info2soft, short for Information2 Software, is the leader in data security field. Its solutions are widely adopted for data protection, disaster recovery, database replication, and so on, earning strong recognition from users worldwide. And Info2soft has been ranked the No.1 vendor in China’s Data Replication and Protection Software Market by IDC for many years.

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