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For years, the primary concern of backup systems was simple:
Can the data be backed up successfully?
Today, however, enterprises are asking a different question:
Can the data be successfully recovered when it matters most?
In the era of AI, large language models, and cloud-native architectures, data has evolved from a resource that merely supports business operations into a strategic asset that drives innovation, decision-making, and competitive advantage.
A ransomware attack, a cloud platform outage, or even corrupted AI training data can impact far more than a handful of files—they can disrupt the continuity of an entire business.
Against this backdrop, the backup industry is undergoing a profound transformation.
The value of backup is no longer defined by whether data is stored.
It is defined by whether the business can be restored quickly and reliably when risks become reality.
Recovery is becoming the new standard for measuring the value of backup.
Why do so many organizations still fear outages despite having backup systems in place?
Because there is a long-standing issue that has often been overlooked:
Backup success does not equal recovery success.
In many organizations:
Backup jobs run successfully every day.
Backup reports show no errors.
Backup copies have been retained for months or even years.
Yet when an actual failure occurs, enterprises may discover that:
Backup sets are corrupted.
Metadata is missing.
Data integrity cannot be verified.
Recovery procedures have never been tested.
As a result:
The backups existed, but recovery was never proven.
For enterprises, this represents one of the greatest hidden risks in data protection.
With the release of i2Backup V9.1.5, Info2soft has fundamentally shifted its design philosophy—from focusing on backup success to ensuring recovery success.
Every backup should be:
Verifiable
Recoverable
Usable
This is the core value that i2Backup delivers.
As data volumes enter the PB-scale era, traditional backup architectures face increasing challenges:
Complex management
Fragmented storage resources
Rising operational costs
Limited scalability
To address these challenges, i2Backup has undergone a comprehensive architectural redesign.
The new version adopts a unified browser/server (B/S) architecture, enabling:
Centralized job scheduling
Unified monitoring and management
Consolidated storage resource management
End-to-end backup lifecycle management
Through the decoupled design of:
Console Server
Schedule Server
Backup Server
i2Backup provides flexible scalability and centralized control across large-scale environments.
The platform also offers unified protection and management for:
File systems
Databases
Big data platforms
Virtualized environments
Cloud platforms
Physical servers
Helping organizations build a truly unified data protection platform.
The greatest threat to backup is not the absence of backups.
It is uncertainty about whether backups can actually be restored.
To address this industry-wide challenge, i2Backup introduces Automated Recovery Validation capabilities.
The system can:
Schedule recovery verification automatically
Trigger recovery testing immediately after backup completion
Perform automated application availability checks
Generate validation reports automatically
Reclaim temporary recovery resources automatically
Organizations no longer need to wait for a disaster to discover whether recovery works.
Recovery readiness can now be continuously verified during daily operations.
Every backup becomes:
Recoverable
Verifiable
Auditable
Enabling a true shift toward:
Recovery Assurance by Design
The risks facing enterprise data have changed dramatically in the AI era.
Organizations once focused primarily on:
Accidental deletion
Hardware failures
System crashes
Today they must also defend against:
Ransomware attacks
Cloud service outages
Data tampering
AI training data corruption
To address these evolving threats, i2Backup delivers a multi-layered security framework.
Powered by kernel-level anti-tampering technology.
Even users with root privileges cannot delete protected backup data.
Supports:
Huawei OceanProtect
Object Storage WORM
WORM Tape Storage
Ensuring long-term immutability and compliance.
Uses a target-side pull mechanism, eliminating the need to expose backup server ports externally.
This effectively blocks lateral ransomware propagation.
Supports industry-standard verification algorithms including:
SHA
SM3
Automatically validating backup integrity and completeness.
Together, these capabilities establish a closed-loop protection model spanning storage security and recovery assurance.
As digital sovereignty and localization initiatives accelerate across industries, replacing foreign backup software is only the first step.
The real objective is building an autonomous and resilient data protection foundation.
i2Backup provides comprehensive support for leading domestic databases, including:
Dameng
KingbaseES
openGauss
OceanBase
GoldenDB
It is also fully compatible with domestic operating systems such as:
Kylin
UOS
openEuler
And supports mainstream infrastructure platforms including:
VMware
Huawei FusionCompute
H3C CAS
Huawei Cloud Stack
Kubernetes
For organizations migrating from international backup solutions such as NetBackup (NBU) and Commvault, Info2soft additionally provides:
Backup policy migration tools
Backup data migration tools
Enabling seamless transitions while preserving historical backup assets and operational policies.
This transforms domestic substitution into a true capability upgrade.
Today, i2Backup has been successfully deployed across:
Financial services
Telecommunications
Healthcare
Transportation
State-owned enterprises
In one of the world’s largest state-owned commercial banking projects, i2Backup supports:
More than 10,000 mission-critical systems
Over 100 PB of managed data assets
More than 20 backup nodes
Unified protection across multiple data centers
The project also successfully replaced an international backup platform.
These deployments demonstrate not only i2Backup’s stability in ultra-large-scale environments, but also the maturity of domestic backup technologies in supporting national critical infrastructure.
The backup industry is entering a new era.
Organizations no longer need software that simply completes backup jobs.
They need a data resilience platform capable of ensuring business continuity when disruptions occur.
From:
Backup Success → Recovery Success
Data Preservation → Business Recovery
Compliance Requirements → Operational Resilience
i2Backup represents more than a product upgrade.
It represents a redefinition of how backup value is measured.
Making recovery a certainty.
That is Info2soft’s answer to the future of data resilience.
