Backup Coordinator Prioritizes Restore Requests in Virtual Environments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing backup techniques in virtual environments often lead to conflicts, collisions, and inefficiencies due to the lack of coordination between multiple uncoordinated backup functionalities, resulting in resource overloads and duplications during backup and restore operations.
Innovation Solution
A backup and restore coordinator system that receives and prioritizes requests from multiple uncoordinated backup functionalities, utilizing a prioritized queue to manage backup and restore requests based on extracted information, prioritizing restore requests over backup requests, and removing duplicate requests to minimize conflicts and improve efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple uncoordinated backup functionalities are implemented in the virtual environment, then backup coverage and redundancy are improved, but conflicts, collisions, and duplications increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a backup coordinator as an intermediary component that receives backup requests from multiple uncoordinated backup functionalities, manages them through a prioritized queue, and coordinates execution to eliminate conflicts and duplications while preserving the redundancy benefits of multiple backup sources
2Productivity
If backups are scheduled based on backup server utilization only, then backup server efficiency is improved, but VM resource utilization and backup timing coordination deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the scheduling parameters from considering only backup server utilization to a multi-parameter approach that includes VM resource utilization, request priority, and coordination status, allowing the system to optimize both server efficiency and timing coordination simultaneously
3Adaptability or versatility
If manual backup scheduling is used, then flexibility and control are improved, but awareness of resource utilization and conflict detection deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the backup coordinator continuously monitors resource utilization, tracks ongoing backup operations, and uses this information to dynamically adjust scheduling decisions, maintaining manual flexibility while adding automated awareness of system state
4Device complexity
If restore requests are processed without priority, then processing simplicity is improved, but restore time and system responsiveness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing a prioritized queue structure that automatically categorizes and ranks backup and restore requests before processing, ensuring that time-sensitive restore operations are handled with appropriate priority without requiring complex real-time decision-making
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AI summary
A backup and restore coordinator configured to receive a plurality of backup and restore requests from at least two uncoordinated backup functionalities implemented in a virtual environment, the virtual environment including a hypervisor hosting a plurality of virtual machines and a backup server. The backup and restore coordinator configured to extract respective information from the plurality of backup and restore requests including target data, backup resource information, and a type of request. The backup and restore coordinator configured to order the plurality of backup and restore requests in a prioritized queue based on the information extracted from the plurality of backup and restore requests.