Restore-Only Client Cross-System Data Restoration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional storage management systems lack the ability to seamlessly transfer backed-up data across autonomous systems, compromising data autonomy and operational efficiency, especially when data is needed across different departments or geographies.
Innovation Solution
A system is devised where a destination client is configured as a 'restore-only' client within the target storage management system, allowing data transfer while maintaining autonomy by limiting management control and tracking to the local system, enabling cross-system restore operations without compromising autonomy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If data is transferred across autonomous storage management systems, then data accessibility and operational efficiency are improved, but system autonomy and management control are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into two distinct autonomous storage management systems, each maintaining its own management boundaries. The restore-only client creates a controlled interface between systems, allowing data transfer while preserving the autonomy of each system's management layer.
Solution Approach 2:
A restore-only client acts as an intermediary between two autonomous storage management systems. This intermediary enables data restoration from a first system to a second system without allowing the destination system to manage or track the source system's data, thus maintaining both system autonomies while enabling cross-system data transfer.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional storage management systems are used, then system autonomy is maintained, but data transfer capability across systems is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The restore-only client is pre-configured with specific permissions and capabilities that enable it to restore data from external systems without requiring full management integration. This preliminary configuration allows autonomous systems to transfer data without compromising their independence.
3Reliability
If cross-system data restoration is enabled, then operational continuity is improved, but management control and tracking are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential restore capability from the destination storage management system, separating it from full management control. The restore-only client can retrieve and restore data without the destination system gaining management control or tracking capabilities over the source system's data.
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AI summary
An exemplary system preserves the autonomy of two or more distinct storage management systems all the while enabling backed up data to be restored from a first storage management system (the “local system”) to a specially-configured client in a second storage management system (the “remote system”). For example, backed up data in the local system (e.g., a secondary copy of production data) may be transferred, in a restore operation, from secondary storage in the local storage management system, which originated the data, to a client of the remote storage management system (the “remote client”). As a specially-configured “restore-only client,” the remote client is limited to receiving backed up data from the local storage management system, via restore operation(s) managed by the local storage manager. The remote client remains a full-fledged client in its home system, the remote storage management system.