Vinchin Backup & Recovery 9.0 represents a substantial upgrade to the data protection platform, introducing smarter, faster, and more dependable backup and recovery solutions. The release focuses on improved data security, recovery reliability, faster failover, and simpler cross-platform migration, with new security and integrity features designed to protect backups from tampering and malware.
The platform now includes comprehensive Kubernetes backup support, using the native CSI interface to take snapshots of PVC persistent volumes. This ensures backup consistency with minimal impact on production volumes while allowing administrators to backup and restore at the cluster, namespace, application, or PVC level. Custom pre- and post-backup scripts enable application freezing, cache flushing, and other tasks to maintain application consistency in dynamic Kubernetes environments.
Security enhancements include integrated Kaspersky antivirus protection that automatically scans backups for viruses and removes detected threats before restoration. This prevents infected systems from being recovered and ensures backup data remains safe and reliable. The system also incorporates backup data integrity checks that generate unique checksums from backup metadata files, comparing them before storage operations or restoration to prevent silent data corruption.
Disaster recovery capabilities see significant improvements with newly-added emergency takeover in the DR lab, enabling fast recovery when production systems fail. The feature supports spinning up recovered VMs and physical servers inside the DR lab to resume critical services without environment deployment. Instant recovery now supports direct failover into the built-in DR lab, particularly beneficial for customers running single production environments without dedicated DR sites.
Migration capabilities expand dramatically with any-to-any migration support, including V2V, P2V, C2C and C2V scenarios. The system automates disk format conversion and configuration mapping while replacing incompatible drivers and repairing boot issues when needed. Vinchin includes a library of 200+ built-in drivers and allows administrators to add custom drivers, significantly simplifying heterogeneous migrations.
Additional enterprise features include WORM protection that prevents backup files from being altered or deleted for defined retention periods, helping meet regulatory requirements. The 9.0 release introduces clustered backup deployments with one Server plus multiple Nodes forming a backup cluster for high availability, removing single points of failure and supporting failover of the backup service.
Performance optimizations target virtualized and database environments specifically. VMware backup improvements include source-side compression that allows data to be compressed on virtualization servers before transmission, reducing network traffic and data transfer volume. Oracle workflows gain multiple efficiency features including skip bad datafile blocks, multi-segment transfer, custom RMAN commands, and parallel backup tasks that reduce backup time for very large databases.
The web interface receives a major cleanup with reduced clutter in menus and navigation, while product capabilities sit in clearer sections to help users find common tasks faster. Granular recovery improvements now allow administrators to push recovered files directly to specified workloads or network shares instead of browser download only, simplifying large restore operations. Users can evaluate the new features through a 60-day full-featured free trial to experience the enhanced protection capabilities firsthand.
