Backup Restore Modification Component for Privacy Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing legal and administrative requirements for handling personally identifiable information and sensitive data pose challenges in ensuring privacy and security, particularly in backup and recovery processes, where existing solutions often require modifications to backup copies.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that create a modified representation of backup files during restore operations by using a modification component to identify and modify backup files based on search criteria and rules, replacing sensitive data with replacement files without altering the original backup copy, thus complying with regulations like GDPR without modifying the backup copy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If backup copies are modified to comply with privacy regulations, then privacy compliance is improved, but the integrity of the original backup copy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a modified copy of the backup data rather than modifying the original backup copy. The modification component generates a modified representation that complies with privacy regulations while the original backup copy remains unchanged and intact, allowing both compliance and integrity to coexist.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If backup copies are modified to remove sensitive data, then privacy protection is improved, but data completeness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of modifying the original backup copy which would result in permanent loss of complete data, the system creates a separate modified copy that removes sensitive information. This allows the original complete data to remain preserved while providing a compliant version for specific operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The modification component applies selective modifications only to specific portions of the data that contain sensitive information, while leaving the rest of the backup data intact. This ensures that data completeness is maintained for non-sensitive portions while privacy protection is applied locally to sensitive portions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If real-time modification during restore operations is implemented, then operational flexibility is improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The modification component acts as an intermediary layer between the backup storage and restore operations. It intercepts restore operations, applies modifications in real-time based on configured rules, and provides modified data without requiring changes to the underlying backup storage system or core restore functionality, thereby managing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-configures modification rules and criteria in advance that define what sensitive data should be removed or modified. During restore operations, these pre-defined rules are automatically applied without requiring real-time decision-making or complex analysis, reducing operational complexity while maintaining flexibility.
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AI summary
An information management system creates a modified representation of backup files in a backup copy on restore to overcome the difficulties and challenges imposed by the legal and administrative requirements on the handling of personally information without making changes to the backup copy. In an example, a restore modification component searches backup data files as they are restored from a backup copy but before the restored data files are written into the primary storage system. When the restore modification component identifies a backup data file with a record that matches search criteria defined in the modification repository, the restore modification component replaces one or more of the restored data field values in the record with replacement data values obtained from the modification repository according to respective replacement rules. In this way, the information management system can create a modified representation of the backup copy data without modifying the backup copy.