State Grid secures data with Scutech’s backup & disaster recovery system
Author: scutech Published time: 2016-07-11 11:16:08 Views: 3380
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User profile:
Electricity, as the most widely used energy in China, has been of great significance in national economy. During the rapid development of electricity industry, large amounts of data were produced, processed and in the end archived or destroyed.
State Grid is a state-owned conglomerate in an industry closely tied to national energy security and national economy. It is the largest state-owned enterprise in the world, ranking 7th in Fortune Global 500 and also the company in China that produces the largest amount of data from its OA system, electric power examination system, production system, electricity trading system, etc. How to maintain the electricity information system efficiently, securely and reliably to meet the needs of future rapid development is a priority and challenge for the industry.
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Data security requirements:
State Grid has set high requirements for its data management and the software-hardware system that stores, backs up and archives its data. It had used foreign NBU backup product before for there is no domestic product that meets its requirements. To ensure the security of data and a stable operation of application systems, it requires a backup & disaster recovery system that is user-friendly, highly autonomous, extendable and can perform unified management and monitoring.
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General framework of backup & disaster recovery system of Scutech:
Considering the priority is to build a reliable backup & disaster recovery system, Scutech has drawn a blueprint of its disaster recovery solution:
To realize multiple backup & disaster recovery for business data and ensure data security by building a local backup server, an off-site backup & disaster recovery server and a remote business takeover center.
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Cases:
As different provinces may have various requirements for backup and disaster recovery, Scutech provides multiple plans and users can choose one that meets their specific requirements.
Case A:
Scenarios: Province A needs to perform a full backup, incremental backup as well as recovery of its operating system and applications. Operation and maintenance management is also required. The plan Scutech provides is as follows:
The disaster recovery platform based on backup products of Scutech can provide backup & recovery service as well as operation & maintenance management such as user access control, job management, alert management and reporting management.
Backup data could be stored for a long time as the platform is connected to Quantum IX6700 tape library. Supports custom backup time and strategy according to requirements of business systems. The platform can also connect to other tape libraries such as Huawei VTL6900.
Case B:
Scenarios: Province B requires a full backup and incremental backup of its operating system and databases; D2T and D2D2T modes are required and backup data will be stored in Oracle tape.
The plan is as follows:
The disaster recovery platform is built based on Scutech’s backup products to provide data backup and recovery service for the whole backup system. Oracle RAC operating in HP-UX system will be directly backed up to tape library. The platform is also connected to Oracle SL150 tape library for long-time offline storage. Linx Rocky Secure Operating System will perform full backup for the operating system and backup for specific application files.
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Advantages of Scutech:
1. Supports full backup / recovery of operating systems, instant backup of massive data and full backup, differential backup and log backup of databases. Data could be backed up via D2T or D2D2T mode. It also supports custom backup time and strategies, granularity recovery and can perform recovery to a certain checkpoint.
2. Archive management of in / out of tape libraries and offsite storage.
3. Supports Oracle RAC clusters which need only one instance to perform data backup and granularity recovery of table spaces as well as logs of databases.