Cloud Backup Configuration Service for Failover Recovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users without access to or unwillingness to invest in resources for a target environment for backup and disaster recovery face challenges in configuring and managing data backups, leading to inefficiencies and resource constraints.
Innovation Solution
Deploying a virtual machine agent on a source environment to facilitate data backup configurations as a service, where snapshots are stored at cloud resources managed by the data management and backup system, allowing users to utilize backup services without managing or configuring backup processes themselves.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users configure and manage their own backup target environments, then backup reliability is improved, but device complexity and resource investment increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a backup configuration service as an intermediary between users and the backup infrastructure. This service automatically generates backup configurations, manages target environment settings, and handles backup operations without requiring users to directly configure complex backup systems. The intermediary service maintains backup reliability while abstracting away the complexity of backup management from end users.
2Reliability
If users invest in dedicated target environment resources, then backup security is improved, but loss of substance increases
Solution Approach 1:
The backup configuration service provides universal backup capabilities that can be shared across multiple users and workloads. Instead of each user requiring dedicated target environment resources, the service creates a shared backup infrastructure that serves multiple purposes and users simultaneously. This reduces the total resource investment needed while maintaining secure backup operations through centralized management and isolation mechanisms.
3Manufacturing precision
If users manually configure backup schedules and settings, then backup precision is improved, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The backup configuration service performs preliminary actions by automatically generating optimized backup configurations, schedules, and settings before backup operations begin. The service pre-configures target environments, establishes backup policies, and sets up monitoring mechanisms in advance. This eliminates the need for users to spend time manually configuring each backup parameter while maintaining precise and tailored backup schedules through automated optimization algorithms.
Data Source
AI summary
A data management system may deploy a virtual machine agent on a source data storage environment including a first set of computing resources managed by a user of a data management platform. In some examples, the virtual machine agent facilitates a connection between the source data storage environment and a target data storage environment including a second set of computing resources managed by the data management platform. The target data storage environment may be configured to automatically recover and restore data at the target data storage environment based on determining a failover event at the source data storage environment. The data management system may receive, from the user, a backup configuration configuring a schedule for backing up the data from the source data storage environment to the target data storage environment. The data management system may then perform a backup of the data in accordance with the backup configuration.