Local Data Protection Manager Add-on API Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data protection systems face inefficiencies in managing data protection services for hosts with diverse types of host components, as each component requires unique functionalities, leading to inefficient use of computing resources.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing a local data protection manager with an add-on API and library to translate generic data protection requests into host component-specific requests, enabling a single data protection manager to provide services to multiple hosts with different components by identifying associated data protection agents and libraries.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a separate data protection system is implemented for each host component type, then each component receives specialized protection services, but the system complexity and computing resource consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal data protection manager that can handle multiple types of host components through a standardized interface. The manager uses component identification mechanisms to recognize different component types and applies appropriate protection strategies through a common framework, eliminating the need for separate dedicated systems for each component type while maintaining specialized protection capabilities.
2Reliability
If multiple dedicated data protection managers are deployed for different host components, then each manager can be optimized for its specific component, but the computing resource usage and system overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple dedicated data protection managers into a single unified manager that serves all host components. The unified manager maintains component-specific protection logic through identification mechanisms and conditional processing, allowing optimized protection strategies for different component types while consolidating computational resources into one manager instance, thereby reducing overall computing resource consumption.
3Device complexity
If a generic data protection approach is used for all host components, then system complexity is reduced, but the protection service quality and adaptability to specific component needs deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by enabling the data protection manager to adapt its protection strategies based on the specific type of host component being protected. Through component identification and type-based processing, the manager applies specialized protection rules and methods tailored to each component's characteristics while maintaining a unified system architecture, thus achieving component-specific adaptability without sacrificing system simplicity.
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AI summary
A system for providing data protection services for data generated by host components hosted by hosts includes persistent storage for storing data and a local data protection manager. The local data protection manager identifies a data protection trigger event associated with a host component hosted by the host, identifies an add-on library associated with the host component, identifies a data protection agent associated with the host component, and initiates performance of data protection services by the data protection agent using the add-on library.