Storage Security

Under Storage Security tab, you are able to enable Storage Protection which can effectively protect your backup data stored in the backup storage.

By default, storage protection is disabled, when enabled, only Vinchin applications are allowed to modify the backup data saved in the backup storages attached to Vinchin backup server/node. And as a result, it can protect your backup data against ransomware and other malwares from modifying your backup data.

Notice

1. Before upgrading Vinchin software, please temporarily disable Storage Protection, otherwise, software upgrade will fail. After upgrading, please turn it back on.
2. To guarantee Storage Protection always works, the backup storage of Vinchin backup server must be exclusive block devices, like local disks, disk partitions, logical volumes, fibre channel LUNs and iSCSI LUNs, for other file storages, Storage Protection might not work, because ransomware and other malwares might access your backup data by-passing Vinchin backup server.