Backup Metadata Policy Generation for Multi-Host Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Generating customized protection policies for each host is time and resource intensive, often requiring manual review, due to the diverse applications and data types across different hosts in an organization.
Innovation Solution
Collecting metadata during backups at a singular location and analyzing it to generate and promulgate policies on a per-host basis, using backup storage to identify hosts and applications, retrieve protection policies, and adjust policies accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If customized protection policies are generated for each host manually, then policy accuracy and adaptability are improved, but time consumption and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system collects and stores metadata about hosts, applications, and data in advance during normal backup operations. When policy generation is needed, this pre-collected metadata is immediately available, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual assessment and enabling rapid automated policy creation while maintaining high customization accuracy.
2Manufacturing precision
If manual review is performed for policy generation, then policy quality and accuracy are improved, but resource requirements and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically analyzing collected metadata and generating protection policies without requiring manual review. The metadata contains sufficient information about hosts, applications, and data characteristics, enabling the system to autonomously create accurate, customized policies and eliminate complex manual intervention processes.
3Loss of information
If metadata is collected during backup operations, then data about hosts and applications is obtained, but additional processing overhead is introduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges metadata collection with existing backup operations, so that the same infrastructure and processes used for data protection are also utilized for information gathering. This integration eliminates separate collection processes, reduces processing overhead, and ensures that metadata is captured as a natural byproduct of routine backup activities.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for providing a single-point promulgation of protection policies that includes receiving, at a backup storage and in connection with a backup operation, a metadata database associated with multiple hosts. The method also includes identifying, using the metadata database, each of the hosts associated with the metadata database. The method further includes identifying, for each of the identified hosts, a set of applications. In addition, the method includes retrieving a set of protection policies. Moreover, the method includes determining, based on the identified hosts and associated sets of applications and using the set of protection policies, a set of host protection policies, wherein each of the hosts is associated with a protection policy from the set of protection policies. Also, the method includes sending, to each of the hosts, an associated protection policy.