Processing unknown or unexpected properties encountered during migration or archiving operations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10649671-B2
Application number	US-201514719224-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 21, 2015
Priority date	May 21, 2015
Publication date	May 12, 2020
Grant date	May 12, 2020

Abstract

A network-based solution for processing unknown or unexpected property encountered during a migration or archiving operation may include, as embodied in various systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media, accessing a plurality of objects stored in memory of a source computing system. The solution may include performing a discovery assessment on each of a plurality of operator-selected objects. The discovery assessment may include examining a property associated with a document of each selected object and notifying the operator when the examination determines that the property is unknown or unexpected.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
in association with a data migration operation, accessing a plurality of objects stored in memory of a source computing system, at least a portion of the plurality of objects associated with a document;
providing, in a graphical user interface, an identification of the at least portion of the objects associated with the document;
receiving, via the graphical user interface, a selection of at least a subset of the at least portion of the objects;
examining a property associated with the document of each selected object;
generating an electronic notification when the examination identifies that the property is unknown or unexpected by a target computing system based on the property not currently being associated with at least one known property of the target computing system, wherein the property is unknown or unexpected when the property is determined to cause an error with the data migration operation;
providing, via the graphical user interface, the electronic notification to indicate that the property is unknown or unexpected by the target computing system;
providing, via the graphical user interface, an interface tool to map the property to at least one known property of the target computing system;
receiving, via the interface tool, input to map the property to the at least one known property of the target computing system;
responsive to receiving the input, mapping the property to the at least one known property of the target computing system;
creating a rule for future use when encountering the property;
electronically migrating the document from the source computing system to the target computing system based on the mapping of the property to the at least one known property, wherein migration of the document is initiated during examination of the property associated with the document;
assigning the property as a known property of the target computing system for future mapping; and
identifying a second document to migrate, the document including the property; and
based on the assigning the property as a known property of the target computing system for future mapping and without receiving additional user input, mapping the property to the at least one known property of the target computing system.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein generating the electronic notification includes recording the unknown or unexpected property and reporting the unknown or unexpected property.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the unknown or unexpected property is reported by at least one of a log file, a command line feedback, or a graphical user interface.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a mapping instruction that instructs the target computing system to treat the unknown or unexpected property based on the mapping of the property to the at least one known property that comprises a specified type of known property.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , further comprising transferring to the target computing system the object associated with the unknown or unexpected property based on the received mapping instruction.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving configuration settings that configure a network connection between an application server and the source computing system.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising commencing the migrating of the document after performance of the examining.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the unknown or unexpected property includes at least one of an unknown or unexpected source object property, an unknown or unexpected data type property, and unknown or unexpected metadata.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the source computing system and the target computing system includes an email platform.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the source computing system and the target computing system includes an enterprise social media platform.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the source computing system and the target computing system includes a content management platform.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of objects include at least one of a mailbox, a user, a folder, a community site, a document library, a wiki site, and a content management site.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the document is at least one of an email, a contact, a calendar event, a posting, and a data file.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a computer program executable by a processor to perform a method comprising:
accessing a plurality of objects stored in memory of a source computing system, at least a portion of the plurality of objects associated with a document;
providing, in a graphical user interface, an identification of the at least portion of the objects associated with the document;
receiving, via the graphical user interface, a selection of at least a subset of the at least portion of the objects;
performing a discovery assessment on each of the selected objects, wherein the discovery assessment includes examining a property associated with the document of each selected object;
generating an electronic notification when the examination identifies that the property is unknown or unexpected by a target computing system based on the property not currently being associated with at least one known property of the target computing system, wherein the property is unknown or unexpected when the property is determined to cause an error with a data migration operation;
providing, via the graphical user interface, the electronic notification to indicate that the property is unknown or unexpected by the target computing system;
providing, via the graphical user interface, an interface tool to map the property to at least one known property of the target computing system;
receiving, via the interface tool, input to map the property to the at least one known property of the target computing system;
responsive to receiving the input, mapping the property to the at least one known property of the target computing system;
creating a rule for future use when encountering the property;
electronically moving the document from the source computing system to the target computing system based on the mapping of the property to the at least one known property, wherein migration of the document is initiated during examination of the property associated with the document;
assigning the property as a known property of the target computing system for future mapping;
identifying a second document to migrate, the document including the property; and
based on the assigning the property as a known property of the target computing system for future mapping and without receiving additional user input, mapping the property to the at least one known property of the target computing system.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the method further includes receiving a mapping instruction that when executed causes the target computing system to treat the unknown or unexpected property based on the mapping of the property to the at least one known property that comprises a specified type of known property.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the method further includes tra

Assignees

• Quest Software Inc

Inventors

• Shoultz Nathan N
• Willis Tomas

Classifications

• G06F3/067

  Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• G06F3/0647

  Migration mechanisms · CPC title

• G06F3/0619 Primary

  in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors · CPC title

• G06F11/00

  Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring (error detection, correction or monitoring in information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B20/18; monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing G11B27/36; in static stores G11C29/00) · CPC title