Cross-Data-Center Migration Tool for Account and Backup Continuity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Data migration between data centers is complex and often hampered by bottlenecks, leading to inefficient, error-prone, and disruptive manual processes that fail to ensure seamless and secure transfer of customer data and configurations.
Innovation Solution
A cross-data center migration tool that automates the process by creating a copy of the account structure, configuring login credentials, and remapping customer data and configurations, ensuring seamless transition and minimizing disruptions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual data migration processes are used, then flexibility and adaptability are maintained, but productivity is low and errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a copy of the source data center's account structure, user accounts, and data configurations on the destination data center. This copying mechanism enables automated replication of entire data center states, significantly improving migration productivity while reducing manual intervention and errors.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical operations with automated software-based migration processes. The system automatically detects, validates, and transfers data through configured workflows, substituting human labor with programmable automation that is both faster and more consistent.
2Reliability
If automated migration tools are used, then productivity increases and errors decrease, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the migration system continuously monitors the source and destination data centers, validates data integrity, and provides status reports. This feedback loop ensures reliable migration while allowing the system to adapt to different data center configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent allows configuration of migration parameters such as data filters, inclusion/exclusion criteria, and mapping rules between source and destination systems. By enabling parameter customization, the system achieves reliable migrations across different scenarios without requiring complete system redesign.
3Reliability
If comprehensive data migration is performed, then data integrity is ensured, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the migration process into distinct phases: account structure replication, user account creation, data transfer, and validation. This segmentation allows parallel processing of different data types and enables selective migration of critical data first, reducing overall migration time while maintaining completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring migration workflows, pre-validating data structures, and pre-establishing mapping rules before actual data transfer. This preparation enables faster execution during migration and ensures data completeness without time-consuming on-site adjustments.
Data Source
AI summary
In one aspect, a system may receive, via a user graphical user interface, a request to perform a data migration from a source data center to a destination data center. A system may in response to receiving the request, perform the data migration by: (1) creating a copy of a tenants structure that lists information about each tenant of the source data center, wherein a respective tenant is a representation of a user on a platform level, (2) creating and activating, on the destination data center, a plurality of new user accounts that match a main login body and suffix of a plurality of existing user accounts on the source data center, (3) re-registering, at the destination data center, agents from the source data center; and (4) migrating backup data from the source data center to the destination data center.