Centralized Backup Disaster Recovery System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current backup disaster recovery systems face inefficiencies due to the slow operations and long times required for data backup and recovery using tapes, manual error risks, and the lack of unified centralized management control consoles, leading to complex and unreliable disaster recovery processes.
Innovation Solution
A centralized management mode backup disaster recovery system utilizing a control console for unified control of data containers, backup processes, storage media, and standby machines, incorporating SAN, virtualization, remote mirroring, and snapshot techniques to enable rapid data recovery and automated disaster drills.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If tape backup is used for data storage, then reliability and chronicle storage are improved, but backup speed and restore speed are significantly reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the backup strategy into two levels: fast storage media (disk/SAN) for immediate backup and tape for long-term chronicle storage. This segmentation allows the system to achieve both high speed for critical data and reliability for archival purposes, resolving the contradiction between backup speed and data reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates multiple copies of data at different storage locations and media types. By maintaining copies on both fast storage and tape, the system ensures data reliability while enabling rapid restoration from the fast storage copy, thus resolving the speed-reliability contradiction.
2Ease of operation
If manual operations are used for backup and recovery, then flexibility is maintained, but error probability increases and security is imperiled
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements automated backup and recovery processes that execute without manual intervention. The system automatically backs up data, manages storage resources, and performs recovery operations, thereby eliminating human errors while maintaining operational flexibility through programmable control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates monitoring and feedback mechanisms that automatically detect backup status, storage availability, and recovery progress. This feedback loop enables the system to self-adjust and self-correct, reducing errors while maintaining operational flexibility through automated decision-making.
3Adaptability or versatility
If separate operations are performed on backup software in respective production servers, then system-specific control is achieved, but management convenience is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized backup management system that provides unified control across multiple production servers and storage systems. This universal management interface allows operators to control different systems through a single console, maintaining system-specific control capabilities while dramatically improving management convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple separate backup operations into a single centralized management framework. By combining control functions for different servers and storage systems into one unified interface, the system achieves both system-specific control and operational convenience through consolidation.
4Reliability
If traditional disaster recovery drill methods are used, then manual verification is performed, but drill efficiency is low and reliability is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements automated disaster recovery drills that execute verification processes without manual intervention. The system automatically restores data, verifies integrity, and generates reports, thereby significantly improving drill efficiency while enhancing reliability through consistent automated verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs automated verification actions during the drill process itself, rather than requiring separate manual verification steps. This preliminary automated action ensures data integrity is verified as part of the recovery process, improving both efficiency and reliability.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a centralized management mode backup disaster recovery system, which comprises: a control console (104) for performing centralized control on a data container (105), a backup process module (103), storage medium (101), and a standby machine (102) through respective control operations; a production server (108) responsible for controlling and managing data circulation between the production server and the storage medium in unit of data blocks; a backup process module (103) for backing up data to storage space allocated for the production server (180) by the storage medium (101) through an mirror technique and a synchronous or asynchronous technique or any other backup methods; the storage medium (101) for storing data and allocating a logic unit (200) to the production server (108) for data storage; the standby machine (102) for storing system data of the production server (108) and completing automatic running and setting of the standby machine (102) through the control console (104); and the data container (105) for recording operation modes, data information, and command requests of the control console, the production server, the backup process module, the storage medium, and the standby machine through data condition update.