DBaaS Backup Management for Transparent Recovery and Migration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud service providers offer limited transparency in protecting database-as-a-service (DBaaS) data, with snapshots being opaque and lacking customer control over backup, storage, and migration options.
Innovation Solution
A data storage management system provides managed backup copies outside cloud service providers' control, enabling customers to manage backup operations, storage, recovery, and migration, with features like table-level restores and long-term retention, and leveraging opaque cloud-provided snapshots.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If cloud service providers use opaque snapshots for DBaaS backups, then backup simplicity is improved, but customer control and transparency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary backup management system that sits between the cloud service provider's opaque snapshots and the customer. This intermediary system translates the opaque snapshots into transparent, manageable backup copies that customers can control, search, restore, and migrate. The intermediary layer maintains simplicity by automatically managing the snapshots while providing customers with transparent control interfaces.
2Device complexity
If cloud service providers offer limited backup transparency, then system complexity is reduced, but customer management capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the backup system into distinct functional layers: the cloud service provider's snapshot layer (which remains simple and opaque), the intermediary backup management layer (which provides transparency and control), and the customer interface layer (which offers management capabilities). This segmentation allows each layer to maintain appropriate complexity while collectively providing both simplicity and customer control.
3Adaptability or versatility
If customers want full control over DBaaS data backup and migration, then customer autonomy is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service capabilities where the backup management system automatically performs backup operations, data transformation, and migration tasks without requiring complex customer intervention. The system autonomously manages the complexity of coordinating with cloud service providers while providing customers with simple, high-level control interfaces for autonomous data management.
4Quantity of substance
If cloud service providers use opaque snapshots, then storage efficiency is improved, but data accessibility and recoverability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates transparent backup copies from the cloud service provider's opaque snapshots. These copies maintain the storage efficiency of the original snapshots while adding layers of accessibility and manageability. The copying process preserves the compact representation of snapshots while enabling customers to search, restore, and migrate data without needing to understand the underlying snapshot structure.
Data Source
AI summary
A streamlined approach enables customers to retain management control over their data in a database-as-a-service (“DBaaS”) setting, by providing managed backup copies outside cloud service providers' sphere of control. An illustrative data storage management system provides control over performing backup operations to generate managed backup copies, storing managed backup copies, recovering managed backup copies in whole or in part, migrating managed backup copies, and migrating DBaaS instances. Management control also extends to choices of where to store the managed backup copies, whether on the same cloud computing platform as the source DBaaS, on a different cloud computing platform, and/or in a non-cloud data center.