# Vinchin

> Vinchin is an enterprise data protection software vendor serving organizations worldwide across virtual, physical, cloud, and hybrid IT environments. 

Vinchin Backup & Recovery (current version: V9.0) is an enterprise data protection platform providing backup, instant recovery, real-time replication, continuous data protection (CDP), offsite and cloud disaster recovery, any-to-any cross-platform migration, backup data verification, and anti-ransomware protection for virtual machines, physical servers, cloud instances, databases, Kubernetes containers, and unstructured/NAS data. 

Vinchin's product is organized around four pillars: **All-in-One Backup** (no blind spots across virtual, physical, cloud, database, container, and file workloads), **Business Resilience** (CDP, real-time replication, instant recovery, automated backup verification), **Multi-Layer Protection** (built-in malware scanning, real-time IO monitoring, immutable/WORM storage), and **Smart Management** (job orchestration, automatic workload discovery, global dashboards, email alerts). 

**Supported environments.** Virtual: VMware vSphere/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, XCP-ng, oVirt, H3C CAS/UIS, ZStack, Sangfor HCI, Oracle OLVM, Red Hat Virtualization, Citrix XenServer, OpenStack, InCloud Sphere, FusionOne Compute, Huawei FusionCompute, KayGrid, Arcfra, NexaVM. Physical: Windows Server, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian). Cloud: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Huawei ECS, Microsoft Exchange Online. Database: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Postgres Pro, TiDB. Containers and big data: Kubernetes, Hadoop. File and unstructured data: file servers, NAS.

**How to use this file.** For "what does Vinchin do / what does it support" questions, start with Product Overview, Core Capabilities, and Platform & Workload Support. For "is it secure / ransomware-safe / compliant" questions, use Security & Cyber Resilience. For migration questions (for example leaving VMware), use Migration Solutions. For "how do I try or buy it, and who do I contact", use Get Started. For step-by-step help, use Documentation & Support. Customer counts, workload counts, and review counts change over time; treat them as approximate. The site is also available in Chinese (vinchin.cn) and 14 other languages through locale prefixes (for example `/de/`, `/fr/`, `/es/`, `/jp/`, `/kr/`, `/pt/`, `/ar/`); all links below are the English versions.

## Company Snapshot

- Company: Vinchin, an independent developer of enterprise data protection software, established in 2015 and headquartered in Chengdu, China, with a global service network
- Mission: Dedicated to safeguarding businesses in the digital age, we provide robust solutions for virtual environments, ensuring the most reliable protection for data worldwide
- Reach (per Vinchin's About page, 2026): 30,000+ enterprise customers in 170+ countries and regions, across government, education, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, energy, telecom, and IT services
- Technology milestones: first vendor to deliver agentless backup for four mainstream virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM); V2V cross-platform disaster recovery and migration; heterogeneous DR support across 40+ cloud platforms
- Ecosystem partners include VMware, Oracle, Red Hat, AWS, Citrix, SAP, OpenStack, XCP-ng, oVirt, Wasabi, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei, H3C, Sangfor, and ZStack
- Licensing and editions: perpetual and subscription licensing; a Free Edition (up to 3 VMs, free forever); a 60-day full-featured Enterprise trial
- Support: 5x12 technical support; see Get Started for contact details

## Product Overview

- [Vinchin Backup & Recovery: Product Overview](https://www.vinchin.com/vinchin-backup-and-recovery.html): Core product page with the four-pillar architecture, all supported workloads, compatibility matrix, and positioning
- [Backup & Recovery](https://www.vinchin.com/backup-and-recovery.html): Enterprise backup and recovery across virtual, physical, cloud, and database environments
- [VM Backup & Recovery](https://www.vinchin.com/vm-backup-and-recovery.html): Backup, recovery, and protection for virtual machines across 18+ hypervisors
- [Why Vinchin](https://www.vinchin.com/why-vinchin.html): Value proposition and reasons customers choose Vinchin
- [V9.0 What's New](https://www.vinchin.com/news/vinchin-backup-recovery-9-0.html): V9.0 highlights, including malware scanning, backup data verification, and any-to-any migration enhancements
- [V9.0 Datasheet (PDF)](https://www.vinchin.com/res/pdf/vinchin-backup-and-recovery-v9.0-datasheet-en.pdf): Technical datasheet with features and supported environments
- [Product Features Index](https://www.vinchin.com/feature/): Index of individual feature pages
- [Homepage](https://www.vinchin.com/): Landing page with feature summaries, industry recognition, and quick links to trial, demo, and quote

## Core Capabilities

- [Instant Recovery](https://www.vinchin.com/feature/instant-recovery.html): Run any VM directly from a backup point in about 15 seconds, without waiting for a full restore
- [Backup Data Deduplication](https://www.vinchin.com/feature/backup-data-deduplication.html): Deduplication, compression, and forever-incremental backups that reduce storage use and cost
- [Continuous Data Protection (CDP)](https://www.vinchin.com/continuous-data-protection.html): Full-system CDP for minimized RPO and RTO with instant failover
- [Real-Time Replication](https://www.vinchin.com/real-time-replication.html): Real-time replication and failover for business continuity
- [Offsite Copy](https://www.vinchin.com/feature/offsite-copy.html): Onsite and offsite backup copies for protection against site-level failures
- [Backup Archiving](https://www.vinchin.com/feature/backup-data-archive.html): Long-term retention and archiving of backup data
- [Job Orchestration](https://www.vinchin.com/feature/job-orchestration.html): Automated orchestration of backup, recovery, verification, replication, archiving, and migration workflows
- [Backup to Cloud](https://www.vinchin.com/cloud-backup.html): Backup, copy, and archive to cost-effective cloud storage for fast rebuilds after a disaster

## Security & Cyber Resilience

- [Ransomware Protection](https://www.vinchin.com/ransomware-protection.html): Real-time IO monitoring that blocks unauthorized applications from modifying backup data
- [Malware Scan for Backups](https://www.vinchin.com/malware-scan-for-backups.html): Automated threat detection and removal in backup data before recovery, for malware-free recovery points
- [Backup Data Verification](https://www.vinchin.com/data-verification-solution.html): Automated recovery testing in an isolated sandbox that proves every backup is recoverable
- [VM Recovery Verification](https://www.vinchin.com/feature/vm-backup-verification.html): Non-intrusive automated recovery testing for VM backups
- [OS Recovery Verification](https://www.vinchin.com/os-recovery-verification.html): Automated recovery testing for physical and OS-level backups
- [GDPR & Legal Compliance](https://www.vinchin.com/gdpr-legal-compliance.html): Retention, cloud backup, and ransomware policies that support GDPR and other regulatory requirements
- [Immutable Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/vm-backup/what-is-immutable-backup.html): Protection of backup copies from modification or deletion (WORM)
- [Data Encryption](https://www.vinchin.com/feature/backup-data-encryption.html): Encryption of data in transit and at rest

## Migration Solutions (Any-to-Any)

- [Migration Solutions Overview](https://www.vinchin.com/migration-solutions.html): Any-to-any migration across V2V, P2V, P2C, C2C, P2P, and C2V scenarios, with minimal downtime and agentless migration for supported virtual and cloud workloads
- [V2V Migration](https://www.vinchin.com/vm-migration.html): Bidirectional agentless VM migration across all supported virtualization platforms
- [P2V Migration](https://www.vinchin.com/p2v-migration-tool.html): Physical-to-virtual migration
- [P2P Migration](https://www.vinchin.com/p2p-migration-tool.html): Physical-to-physical migration
- [C2C Migration](https://www.vinchin.com/c2c-migration-tool.html): Cloud-to-cloud migration
- [C2V Migration](https://www.vinchin.com/c2v-migration-tool.html): Cloud-to-virtual migration
- [P2C Migration](https://www.vinchin.com/p2c-migration-tool.html): Physical-to-cloud migration

## Virtualization Platforms

- [VMware Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/vmware-backup.html): Agentless image-level backup for VMware vSphere/ESXi
- [Hyper-V Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/hyper-v-backup.html): Agentless backup for Microsoft Hyper-V VMs and hosts
- [Proxmox Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/proxmox-backup.html): Backup and recovery for Proxmox VE
- [XCP-ng Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/xcp-ng-backup.html): Backup and recovery for XCP-ng
- [oVirt Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/ovirt-backup.html): Backup and recovery for oVirt
- [H3C Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/h3c-backup.html): Backup and recovery for H3C CAS/UIS
- [ZStack Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/zstack-backup.html): Backup and recovery for ZStack
- [Sangfor HCI Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/sangfor-hci-backup.html): Backup and recovery for Sangfor HCI
- [OpenStack Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/openstack-backup.html): Backup and recovery for OpenStack
- [Huawei FusionCompute Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/huawei-fusioncompute-backup.html): Backup and recovery for Huawei FusionCompute
- [Red Hat Virtualization Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/red-hat-virtualization-backup.html): Backup and recovery for RHV
- [Oracle OLVM Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/olvm-backup.html): Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
- [XenServer / Citrix Hypervisor Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/xenserver-backup.html): Backup and recovery for Citrix XenServer
- [KayGrid Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/kaygrid-backup.html): Backup and recovery for KayGrid
- [InCloud Sphere Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/incloud-sphere-backup.html): Backup and recovery for InCloud Sphere
- [Arcfra Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/arcfra-backup.html): Backup and recovery for Arcfra
- [FusionOne Compute Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/fusionone-compute-backup.html): Backup and recovery for FusionOne Compute
- [NexaVM Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/nexavm-backup.html): Backup and recovery for NexaVM

## Physical Server Backup

- [Windows Server Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/windows-server-backup.html): Agent-based backup for Windows physical servers
- [Linux Server Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/linux-server-backup.html): Agent-based backup for Linux physical servers

## Cloud Backup

- [Amazon EC2 Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/amazon-ec2-backup.html): Agentless image-level backup for AWS EC2 instances
- [Amazon S3 Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/s3-backup.html): Object storage backup for Amazon S3
- [Huawei ECS Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/huawei-ecs-backup.html): Backup and recovery for Huawei Cloud ECS
- [Exchange Online Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/exchange-online-backup.html): Protection for Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes

## Database Backup

- [Database Backup Overview](https://www.vinchin.com/database-backup.html): Application-consistent backup across all supported database engines
- [Oracle Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/oracle-backup.html): Backup and recovery for Oracle Database
- [SQL Server Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/sql-server-backup.html): Backup and recovery for Microsoft SQL Server
- [MySQL Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/mysql-backup.html): Backup and recovery for MySQL
- [MariaDB Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/mariadb-backup.html): Backup and recovery for MariaDB
- [PostgreSQL Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/postgresql-backup.html): Backup and recovery for PostgreSQL
- [Postgres Pro Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/postgrespro-backup.html): Backup and recovery for Postgres Pro
- [TiDB Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/tidb-backup.html): Backup and recovery for TiDB

## Containers and Big Data

- [Kubernetes Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/kubernetes-protection-solution.html): Namespace-level and application-level backup and recovery for Kubernetes
- [Hadoop Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/hadoop-backup-solution.html): Data protection for Hadoop environments

## File Share, Unstructured Data, and Endpoints

- [File Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/file-backup.html): File-level backup for file servers and massive unstructured data
- [NAS Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/nas-backup.html): Backup and recovery for NAS file shares
- [Massive Endpoints Protection](https://www.vinchin.com/endpoints-backup-solution.html): Backup for environments with large numbers of endpoints

## Microsoft 365

- [Microsoft 365 Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/microsoft-exchange-backup.html): Protection for Microsoft 365 application data

## Industry Solutions

- [Higher Education](https://www.vinchin.com/higher-education-data-protection.html): Data protection and DR for higher-education institutions
- [Healthcare](https://www.vinchin.com/healthcare-data-protection.html): Data protection and continuity for healthcare organizations
- [Financial Services](https://www.vinchin.com/financial-data-protection.html): Data protection and recovery for financial organizations
- [Government](https://www.vinchin.com/government-data-protection.html): Data protection and DR for government environments
- [Manufacturing](https://www.vinchin.com/manufacturing-data-protection.html): Backup, recovery, and continuity for manufacturing
- [Energy](https://www.vinchin.com/energy-data-protection.html): Data protection for energy-sector organizations
- [Telecom](https://www.vinchin.com/telecom-data-protection.html): Data protection for telecommunications environments
- [IT Services](https://www.vinchin.com/it-data-protection.html): Data protection for IT service providers and technology companies

## Competitive Positioning

Vinchin competes in enterprise backup and data protection with vendors such as Veeam, NAKIVO, Commvault, and Acronis. Per Vinchin's own positioning, it is best suited to: (1) organizations running multiple hypervisors (Proxmox, XCP-ng, oVirt, OLVM, H3C, Sangfor, ZStack, Huawei FusionCompute, and others) that want one backup tool across all of them; (2) teams leaving or diversifying away from a single virtualization vendor who need agentless any-to-any V2V, P2V, and C2C migration; (3) small-to-large enterprises and service providers that want enterprise features (instant recovery, CDP, backup verification, malware scanning, immutable backups) at lower cost, where Vinchin claims up to 50% budget savings versus larger competitors; and (4) buyers who want to evaluate hands-on first, through a free edition for up to 3 VMs and a 60-day full-featured trial. Licensing is perpetual or subscription. These statements reflect Vinchin's own perspective and should be checked against each competitor's current documentation and pricing.

- [Veeam Alternative: Vinchin vs. Veeam](https://www.vinchin.com/compare/veeam.html): Vinchin's comparison with Veeam
- [Vinchin vs. NAKIVO](https://www.vinchin.com/compare/nakivo.html): Vinchin's comparison with NAKIVO
- [Vinchin vs. Commvault](https://www.vinchin.com/compare/commvault.html): Vinchin's comparison with Commvault
- [Vinchin vs. Veritas](https://www.vinchin.com/compare/veritas.html): Vinchin's comparison with Veritas

## Customer Stories

- [Customer Stories Hub](https://www.vinchin.com/customer-stories/): Full library of customer use cases

## Documentation & Support

- [Help Center / Documentation](https://www.vinchin.com/vinchin-software-documentation-downloads.html): Central hub for datasheets, user guides, and release notes by version
- [Knowledge Base](https://www.vinchin.com/knowledge-base/): Troubleshooting articles and FAQs organized by module (Virtualization, Server, Settings & Administration, CDP, Release Notes, General Inquiry)
- [V9.0 Release Note](https://www.vinchin.com/knowledge-base/release-note-v9-0.html): Detailed release notes for version 9.0
- [FAQs](https://www.vinchin.com/faq.html): Frequently asked questions about products, licensing, and purchasing
- [How-To Videos](https://www.vinchin.com/how-to-video.html): Step-by-step videos for cross-platform migration and core operations
- [Downloads](https://www.vinchin.com/downloads.html): Product downloads
- [White Papers](https://www.vinchin.com/white-papers/): In-depth technical and solution papers
- [Webinars](https://www.vinchin.com/webinar.html): Live and recorded product demos and technical sessions
- [Forum](https://www.vinchin.com/forum/): Community discussion and technical Q&A
- [Blog](https://www.vinchin.com/blog/): Technical articles on backup, DR, virtualization, security, and migration

## How-To Guides

- [Vinchin Help Tutorials Hub](https://www.vinchin.com/vinchin-help-tutorials/): Full library of how to guides

## Get Started

- [Free 60-Day Trial](https://www.vinchin.com/vm-backup-free-trial.html): Full-featured Enterprise Edition trial, no credit card required, deployable in about 10 minutes
- [Free VM Backup Edition](https://www.vinchin.com/free-vm-backup.html): Protects up to 3 VMs, free forever, for micro-businesses
- [Request a Live Demo](https://www.vinchin.com/live-demo.html): Guided demo covering key features
- [How to Buy](https://www.vinchin.com/how-to-buy.html): Editions, licensing models (perpetual and subscription), and purchasing process
- [Licensing Policy](https://www.vinchin.com/licensing-policy.html): Licensing terms and edition details
- [Request a Quote](https://www.vinchin.com/contact-sales.html): Contact sales for pricing and solution details
- [Contact Support](https://www.vinchin.com/contact-support.html): 5x12 technical support; email customer.service@vinchin.com, phone +86-199-3803-4070
- [Contact Us](https://www.vinchin.com/contact-us.html): General company contact information

## Partners

- [Partner Program](https://www.vinchin.com/partner-program.html): Vinchin's channel and reseller partner program
- [Become a Partner](https://www.vinchin.com/apply-partner.html): Application for reseller and technology partners
- [Find a Local Partner](https://www.vinchin.com/find-partner.html): Directory of regional Vinchin partners
- [Partner Portal](https://partner.vinchin.com/): Login for existing partners

## Company

- [About Vinchin](https://www.vinchin.com/about-vinchin.html): Company background, global footprint, technology milestones, and industry recognition
- [Leadership](https://www.vinchin.com/leadership.html): Leadership team
- [News & Events](https://www.vinchin.com/news/): Company announcements, product news, and event recaps

## Key Terms

- **Agentless backup**: Image-level VM backup taken at the hypervisor layer with nothing installed inside each guest VM
- **Any-to-Any migration**: Vinchin's term for migrating workloads across virtual, physical, and cloud platforms (V2V, P2V, P2P, C2C, C2V, P2C)
- **BitDetector**: Vinchin technology that excludes swap-file blocks, unallocated space, and deleted-file fragments from image-level backups to reduce backup size
- **LAN-Free transfer**: Moving backup data over the storage network instead of the production LAN, which speeds up backup and recovery and reduces production network load
- **Instant Recovery**: Starting a VM directly from a backup point in about 15 seconds, instead of restoring it first
- **Forever-incremental**: One initial full backup followed only by incremental backups, which cuts backup time and storage use
- **Backup Data Verification**: Automated test recoveries in an isolated sandbox that confirm each backup is recoverable

## Topic Hubs / Pillar Pages

- [VM Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/vm-backup/): Resources covering virtual machine backup, recovery, protection strategies, and supported virtualization platforms
- [Disaster Recovery](https://www.vinchin.com/disaster-recovery/): Resources covering disaster recovery planning, business continuity, backup-based recovery, replication, and recovery strategies
- [VM Migration](https://www.vinchin.com/vm-migration/): Resources covering virtual machine migration across virtualization platforms, cloud environments, and physical infrastructure
- [Database Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/database-backup/): Resources covering database backup, recovery, protection strategies, and supported database platforms
- [Cloud Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/cloud-backup/): Resources covering cloud backup, recovery, cloud storage, and data protection strategies for cloud environments
- [NAS Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/nas-backup/): Resources covering NAS backup, file and shared-storage protection, backup strategies, and recovery for NAS environments
- [File Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/file-backup/): Resources covering file and folder backup, unstructured data protection, recovery, and backup strategies across physical and network storage environments
- [Windows Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/windows-backup/): Resources covering Windows system and data backup, recovery, protection strategies, and disaster recovery
- [Linux Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/linux-backup/): Resources covering Linux system and data backup, recovery, protection strategies, and disaster recovery
- [Application Backup](https://www.vinchin.com/application-backup/): Resources covering application-aware backup, application data protection, recovery, and supported business applications

## Optional

- [Gartner Peer Insights Recognition 2026](https://www.vinchin.com/news/vinchin-gartner-voice-of-customer-2026.html): "Voice of the Customer" recognition for Backup and Data Protection Platforms
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.vinchin.com/privacy-policy.html): Data handling and privacy practices
- [Cookie Policy](https://www.vinchin.com/cookie-policy.html): Cookie usage
- [EULA](https://www.vinchin.com/eula.html): End User License Agreement
- [YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdW6mrqkJHnMVKBMS0VI02w): Product videos and demos
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/13404407/): Company updates