Meteorological work is the “clairvoyant eye” and “sharp ear” in responding to natural changes. Providing high-quality meteorological services to fully safeguard life safety and production development is of vital importance for Henan Province, located in the Yellow River Basin. To cope with the high risks of meteorological disasters, the Henan Meteorological Bureau launched the “Yellow River Basin Smart Meteorology Big Data Cloud Platform” project and joined hands with Info2soft to build a multi-layered, classified, and hierarchical disaster recovery solution, ensuring the continuity of meteorological data and high availability of business systems.
Henan is one of China’s major agricultural provinces. However, due to its location in a climate-sensitive zone, the province faces the severe challenge of frequent meteorological disasters. Extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall, floods, high temperatures, and droughts occur frequently, causing significant social and economic impacts, making Henan one of the provinces most severely affected by meteorological disasters nationwide.
To enhance its ability to respond to meteorological disasters, the Henan Meteorological Bureau has continuously strengthened its monitoring, forecasting, and early warning capabilities over the years. According to the Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Meteorology in Henan Province issued by the provincial government, by 2025 Henan aims to become a leading smart meteorology province by strengthening monitoring, forecasting, and service capabilities.
Achieving this goal requires not only advanced meteorological data platforms but also highly available and secure disaster recovery capabilities to handle potential emergencies.
Meteorological High-Quality Development: Disaster Recovery Capabilities Cannot Be Overlooked
Against this backdrop, the Henan Meteorological Bureau launched the “Yellow River Basin Smart Meteorology Big Data Cloud Platform” project. The initiative aims to enhance the province’s meteorological disaster early warning and response capabilities, building a modern, efficient, and secure meteorological service platform. This platform must handle real-time collection, analysis, storage, and dissemination of meteorological data while providing strong computing support for meteorological operations.
In terms of disaster recovery, the project’s goal is to establish a reliable disaster recovery system to ensure stable operation of the entire smart meteorology big data platform. This system must not only achieve local backup and remote disaster recovery but also meet stringent domestic technology requirements, ensuring that in the event of a major failure, remote disaster recovery can quickly restore operations.
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Local backup and remote disaster recovery: Deploying backup systems in the local data center, while establishing a disaster recovery platform in a remote site, ensures that in the event of a local disaster, systems can rapidly switch to the remote disaster recovery center, maintaining business continuity.
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Database synchronization and application disaster recovery: Meteorological data, as the core business, has extremely high availability requirements. Database backup, synchronization, and dual-active deployment must be ensured to prevent data loss under any circumstances.
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Real-time data protection: For critical services such as weather forecasting and disaster early warning, real-time data backup is required to guarantee recovery at any point in time, even during failures.
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Multi-level disaster recovery solution: Different services and data have varying protection requirements. Core services such as meteorological data processing and early warning systems must achieve second-level recovery, while secondary services such as office systems may be recovered through scheduled backups.
Classified and Hierarchical Protection: Targeted Disaster Recovery Construction
To address the Henan Meteorological Bureau’s disaster recovery needs, Info2soft provided a comprehensive, classified, and hierarchical disaster recovery solution, ensuring the rapid restoration of core data and business systems under all contingencies.
01 Core Business Protection
For core services such as meteorological data collection and processing, forecasting, and disaster early warning, Info2soft deployed i2Active to achieve dual-active database protection, preventing single points of failure from affecting operations. At the same time, i2Availability provides second-level switchover for applications requiring high availability, ensuring continuous service. Core business data is protected through i2CDP for real-time backup, further strengthened with scheduled backups by i2Backup, achieving multiple layers of protection.
02 Important Business Protection
For critical standalone applications, i2Availability enables minute-level recovery, combined with i2CDP for real-time data protection to ensure recovery at any point in time. Virtualized platforms are protected by i2Backup/i2FFO for full machine backup, further enhanced with scheduled backups to improve data recovery reliability.
03 Other Business Protection
For secondary services such as office systems and meteorological display platforms, i2Backup provides scheduled backup and recovery, ensuring quick system restoration in case of failure. Meanwhile, i2FFO ensures full machine backup for these systems, enabling fast recovery when issues occur.
Advantages of the Solution
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Efficiency: Info2soft’s solution uses byte-level data capture technology to ensure real-time backup without requiring a backup window, reducing the risk of data loss and enabling efficient protection.
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Security: Data transmission is secured with encryption and compression, while remote disaster recovery eliminates single points of failure, improving redundancy and overall system security.
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Flexibility: Solutions are customized according to user needs, supporting different operating systems, storage platforms, and virtualization environments, flexibly meeting diverse disaster recovery requirements.
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Ease of Management: With graphical configuration and real-time alerts, Info2soft’s disaster recovery system simplifies operations and maintenance, enabling immediate response to anomalies and ensuring stable, efficient operation.
As a major agricultural province, Henan relies heavily on accurate and timely meteorological data for agricultural production. Through this disaster recovery project, Info2soft has provided strong technical support to the Henan Meteorological Bureau, ensuring business continuity and data security, and helping to reduce disaster-related losses. Looking ahead, Info2soft will continue to support meteorological development in Henan and across China, promoting the sustained and efficient operation of meteorological monitoring and early warning systems, and delivering smarter and more reliable technical safeguards for agricultural production and social development.