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Application Aware Snapshots

a technology of application awareness and snapshots, applied in the field of data backup, can solve the problems of data loss, data may be simply unrecoverable, and incomplete copies of data,

Inactive Publication Date: 2019-04-11
NEXGEN STORAGE
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Benefits of technology

This approach enables efficient and reliable data recovery by creating snapshots that are application-consistent, reducing the complexity and time required for data restoration and ensuring data integrity.

Problems solved by technology

Consequently, the copied data may be incomplete, requiring a complicated recovery phase where the programs replay changes made to the data from the time of copying.
Alternatively, the data may simply be unrecoverable and lost.
In such circumstances, data recovery, if possible, can be quite time-consuming and may require significant overhead.

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[0018]Aspects of the present disclosure may be embodied as an apparatus, system, method, or computer program product. Accordingly, aspects of the present disclosure may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, or the like) or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a “circuit,”“module,”“apparatus,” or “system.” Furthermore, aspects of the present disclosure may take the form of a computer program product embodied in one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media storing computer readable and / or executable program code.

[0019]Many of the functional units described in this specification have been labeled as modules, in order to more particularly emphasize their implementation independence. For example, a module may be implemented as a hardware circuit comprising custom VLSI circuits or gate arrays, off-the-shelf semicondu...

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Abstract

Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for creating an application-aware snapshot of a storage volume. A network association module is configured to determine an owner for a storage volume. A requester module is configured to request a snapshot operation for a storage volume. A snapshot operation may be initiated from a storage appliance. A provider module is configured to create a snapshot of data of a storage volume in a storage appliance in response to a determined owner quiescing activity for the storage volume.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 833,532, entitled “Application Aware Snapshots,” and filed on Aug. 24, 2015 and U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62 / 040,777, entitled “Application Aware Snapshots,” and filed on Aug. 22, 2014, both of which are incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present disclosure, in various embodiments, relates to data backup and more particularly relates to creating application-aware snapshots of storage volumes.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Backing up data may refer to the process of copying and storing data to a backup location such that backed-up data may be used to restore the original data if the original data is lost or destroyed. When data is copied, the programs using the data may be in the middle of reading or writing data. Consequently, the copied data may be incomplete, requiring a complicated recovery phase where the programs r...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F17/30
CPCG06F16/164G06F16/128G06F11/1451G06F11/1464G06F2201/84
Inventor PATTERSON, JOHN A.
Owner NEXGEN STORAGE