150 results about "Backup software" patented technology

The present invention discloses a method and system for snapshot-based online backup operations permitting reduced requirements to storage capacity and computational overhead for snapshot function.

At the beginning of an online backup operation, the backup software system creates a snapshot of source data storage. The snapshot includes a watch-list used for identifying blocks of a source storage which are watched by snapshot management means for update. If a block included into the watch-list was requested for update, the snapshot management means preserve original contents of that block in a retention container for the purpose of temporary store. The retention container includes a set of temporal stores dedicated for transient storing of blocks until they are backed up.

The essence of the invention is enabling to exclude blocks from the watch-list and the retention container at any moment within the period of snapshot operation. Therefore it is possible to exclude unnecessary blocks from the scope of blocks managed by the snapshot management means, for the purpose of preserving point-in-time data.

Backed up blocks can be operatively excluded from the snapshot so that unchanged blocks are excluded from the watch-list and updated blocks are removed from the retention container. In the latter case temporal stores are shrunk as well. This technique allows to reduce progressively storage expenses and computational overheads required for maintenance of a snapshot being used in the online backup routine.

When a volume-level online backup is performed the snapshot is switched to the read-once mode at the beginning of the data copying stage. A backup utility performs sequential read of blocks from the snapshot. The snapshot management means automatically exclude requested blocks from the scope of managed blocks.

Various embodiments of a computer system and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer system includes a host coupled to a backup store. The host backs up a dataset to the backup store. The dataset comprises data entities and application-specific metadata describing the data entities. The application-specific metadata enables an application to use the data entities. The host: mounts the backup store for read/write access by the application, accesses the backup store with the application, selects a data entity, and performs an operation on the data entity in the backup store using the application. The operation may comprise verifying that the data entity is valid and usable in the context of the application or creating an archival backup of the data entity on a backup medium. The backup store may be a disk-based backup store and the backup medium may be a tape-based backup medium.

When updating a running program in a system that uses a one-to-one backup program, fault-tolerance is lost while the backup program is itself being updated. To overcome this temporary loss of an available backup program, the number of backup copies of a software process is temporarily and dynamically increased during the software upgrade. The extra backup software processes may run on an unused processing unit or may run as an extra software process on a processing unit which is already performing a task. The technique may be applied to communication line cards.

Data, located on a client computer, is stored on a storage device in a computer located in a remote location. Backup software for the client computer loads into memory of the client computer. The backup scheduler and launcher software loads into memory, monitors an actual time at the client computer, compares the actual time to a scheduled backup time at the client computer, and launches a main backup software module of the backup software for the client computer if the actual time is equal to the scheduled backup time. A storage disk of the client computer is scanned to generate a backup list, the backup list including a plurality of files. The backup list is utilized to begin the storing of data located in the plurality of files onto the storage device of the computer at the remote location.

An electronic system includes a network interface connecting the electronic system to a network, a non-volatile memory containing system software, and a CPU connected to the network interface and the non-volatile memory. The CPU discovers new software update components on the network using a universal plug and play (UPnP) protocol, downloads a selected software update component from the new software update components discovered on the network, and updates the non-volatile memory with the downloaded software update component. If the update should fail, a boot loader containing a network stack for a UPnP protocol can be used to reboot the electronic system using a backup software program discovered using the UPnP protocol. When booting, the CPU discovers new update components on the network using the UPnP protocol, downloads a selected update component from the new update components discovered on the network, and updates the non-volatile memory with the downloaded update component.

A method and system for requesting, cross-referencing, extracting and storing historical records of data backup activity by using a software component that interfaces to a plurality of data backup software devices is disclosed. In the first aspect, a method of storing automated request-for-historical records of data backup activity schedules is disclosed. In the second aspect, a method for invoking requests through a component that interfaces to a plurality of data backup software devices is disclosed. In the third aspect, a method for receiving historical records of data backup activity from said component is disclosed. In a fourth aspect, a method for making alterations to said historical records of data backup activity is disclosed. In a fifth aspect, a method for inserting said historical records of data backup activity into a data table located in an open, relational database is disclosed. In a sixth aspect, a method for inserting subsets of said historical records of data backup activity into tables related to said central data table is disclosed. In a seventh aspect, a method for removing completed historical records of data backup activity refresh requests is disclosed. Through the use of a system and method in accordance with the present invention, the aforementioned database can be made self-refreshing, requiring minimal ongoing intervention subsequent to initial configuration. In addition, the aforementioned data refreshes can be manually invoked at any time.

The invention discloses a method for realizing platform migration by using virtualization technology. The method comprises the following steps of: building a virtualization platform on a source server, configuring a source memory device and establishing mapping relationship between the original memory device and the source server to form a source virtualization platform; determining whether the migration is online migration or offline migration, if the migration is the online migration, stopping trunking services and normally operating application on a single source virtual machine so as to ensure the non-interruption of the services; deploying virtualization backup software on a backup server to form a virtualization backup tool; backing up a mapping file of the source virtual machine by using the virtualization backup tool; building, deploying and storing a target virtualization platform; recovering the mapping file to the target virtualization platform; and starting the application on the target virtualization platform and stopping the application on the source virtualization platform at the same time so as to realize the cross-hardware platform online migration of the application. In the method, as the online backup function of the virtualization backup tool is utilized, so that all the services operated in a trunking environment are not interrupted.

A system, method, and program product is provided that receives a backup request at a virtual input/output server (VIOS) from a client of the VIOS. The backup request corresponds to a virtual nonvolatile storage that is used by the client. The VIOS retrieves data from the nonvolatile storage device where the virtual nonvolatile storage is stored. The VIOS transmits the retrieved data to a backup server via a computer network, such as the Internet. In one embodiment, a backup software application runs on the VIOS client and a backup proxy software application runs on the VIOS.

A process of providing access to data associated with a virtual machine running on a host computer system to an offload server is implemented to improve the performance of the host computer system. Once the offload computer system knows how and where to access the data associated with that of the virtual machine, operations can be offloaded from the host computer system and performed by the offload server. Backup operations can be offloaded onto the server. The server can run backup software and directly access the data associated with the virtual machine, thereby freeing the hardware resources of the host computer to handle normal applications running on the virtual machine.

A mobile telephone includes an application processor, internal memory, an external memory card, a backup software module and a restore software module. User data is stored in the internal memory. The backup software module detects changes in the user data, resulting in modified user data. The modified user data is stored onto the external memory card. When the user data is erased from the internal drive or the wireless device needs to be reset the restore software module reads the modified user data from the external memory card and writes the modified user data back onto the internal memory. In this fashion, any modified user data is not lost when the wireless device is reset.

The invention provides a multi-user backup data organization chart and a backup data centralized storage management method based on same; the method comprises the following steps: receiving data object description information of the backup data, backuping the data block corresponded by digital fingerprints in the data object description information which have different digital fingerprints with those of the multi-user backup data organization chart, storing the index information corresponded by the data block and the data object description information in the multi-user backup data organization chart in corresponding format and increasing the reference counts of the data block. The multi-user backup data organization chart comprises a user table, a task table, a backup point index table, a data block index table and a data warehouse. The invention can eliminate the repeated contents in each backup data of users in the backup stage, saves the transmission bandwidth and the cost of storage space and effectively reduces the occupied storage space of repeated data.

The present invention relates to a data file system having: a data access server that has a physical storage for storing data and accesses the physical storage in response to an access request; and a data file server that performs data filing by transmitting an access request to the data access server and using the data access server for data saving. When a logical block becomes unused, the physical block associated with the logical block is effectively released. For example, data backup software that accesses all the physical blocks being used within a predetermined time is activated to search through logical blocks assigned respective physical blocks for a logical block for which no access request is made within the predetermined time during which the data backup software runs. The physical block associated with the logical block is released from the association and included in unused physical blocks.

A method and data processing system for using file backup software to generate an alert when a file modification policy is violated. File backup software is installed on a computer to monitor a plurality of files. If the file backup software detects a modification to a file, the file backup software determines whether a file modification policy associated with the file has been violated. If the file backup software determines that the file modification policy has been violated, the file backup software generates an alert, indicating that the modification violates the modification policy.

The invention discloses a system software updating method and a device in a terminal appliance. The method comprises that a first software partition of a terminal device is used as a main software partition, wherein the first software partition is indicated according to software partition information. A system software which is located in the first software partition can be initiated. When the initiated system software receives updating commands of the system software, a system software which is located in a second software partition can be updated according to a downloaded system software in a new edition, wherein the initiated system software is in an operational process. After the updating is completed, the main software partition which is indicated by the software partition information is modified from the first software partition to the second software partition. When the system software in the main software partition (such as the first software partition) is operated, the system software in a backup software partition (such as the second software partition) can be updated. Therefore, even though the updating is failed, the normal operation of the system software of the main software partition can be not affected. The terminal device can be guaranteed to initiate and operate normally as usual.

A data collection program collects data from a user's workstation and captures the user environment data, including user settings and program application data. The user environment data is stored on a removable nonvolatile storage media for duplication processing. The stored user environment data is processed by a duplication process to duplicate the user environment data from the old workstation onto a new workstation or for recovery from a catastrophic system failure. A variety of user environment settings, not traditionally captured and restored by traditional backup software, are captured and restored. For example, licensing information and application personality data is identified, stored, and recovered along with other user-specific information such as hostnames, IP addresses, and the like.

The invention relates to an Oracle multichannel parallel backup and recovery method. The method comprises the following steps: establishing a plurality of channels for sending Oracle data blocks through a media management library; opening a plurality of threads through a backup software client to be paired and connected with the channels; reading the data of a database in parallel through the channels to generate data blocks in a fixed size; sending the data blocks to the backup software client in parallel; receiving the data blocks sent by corresponding channels through the threads of the backup software client; and sending the data blocks onto a remote storage. Compared with the prior art, the Oracle multichannel parallel backup and recovery method has the advantage that parallel data transmission is utilized to improve the data transmission efficiency so that the data backup and recovery time under Oracle big data background is effectively shortened.

The invention provides a method for achieving backup and disaster recovery of a system by utilizing a virtual machine, which utilizes a Remus module of a Xen virtual machine to achieve the disaster recovery of a computer system and utilizes a libvirt bank commonly used by all the virtual machines to achieve the backup of the computer system. When the disaster recovery and the backup are achieved by utilizing the virtual machine operating the computer system, no extra installation of disaster recovery and backup software is required, time and cost for maintaining and upgrading a disaster recovery program and a backup program are reduced, and the problems of file read conflict and the like occurring in a traditional disaster recovery and backup method can be effectively avoided.