Application distributed optimal backup model

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10732886-B2
Application number	US-201816028685-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 6, 2018
Priority date	Jul 6, 2018
Publication date	Aug 4, 2020
Grant date	Aug 4, 2020

Abstract

A backup agent for generating backups includes a persistent storage and a backup manager. The persistent storage stores backup/restoration policies. The backup manager obtains production host computing resource characteristics associated with production hosts; performs a computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts; performs an availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups; coordinates generating the backups using the application-level computing resource distribution and the backup/restoration policies to obtain the backups; and stores the obtained backups in backup storage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A backup agent for generating backups, comprising:
a persistent storage that stores backup/restoration policies; and
a backup manager programmed to:
obtain production host computing resource characteristics associated with production hosts;
perform a computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts;
perform an availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups;
coordinate generating the backups using the application-level computing resource distribution and the backup/restoration policies to obtain the backups by:
generating backup initiation instructions for each production host based on a corresponding policy of the backup/restoration policies and the application-level computing resource distribution by identifying an administrator-specified maximum number of sessions of a first policy of the backup/restoration policies; and
sending the generated backup initiation instructions to corresponding production agents of the production hosts; and

store the obtained backups in backup storage.

2. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein the production host computing resource characteristics is a cardinality of a total number of processing cores of each respective production host.

3. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein performing the computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts comprises:
identifying a maximum availability of a plurality of computing resources for each of the production hosts; and
storing each respective plurality of computing resources in a corresponding resource profile of the resource profiles.

4. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein performing the availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups comprises:
identifying a limiting resource of each of the production hosts using the obtained resource profiles;
determining a maximum number of concurrent backup generation sessions for each of the production hosts based on the identified limiting resource of each of the production hosts; and
storing the maximum number of concurrent backup generation sessions for each of the production hosts as the application-level computing resources distribution.

5. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein generating the backup initiation instructions for each production host based on the corresponding policy of the backup/restoration policies and the application level computing resource distribution is further performed by:
obtaining the first policy that corresponds to a first production host of the production hosts;
identifying a first maximum number of sessions for the first production host specified by the application-level computing resource distribution;
making a determination that the first maximum number of sessions is larger than the administrator-specified maximum number of sessions; and
specifying the administrator-specified maximum number of sessions for the first production host in the backup initiation instructions.

6. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein generating the backup initiation instructions for each production host based on the corresponding policy of the backup/restoration policies and the application level computing resource distribution is further performed by:
obtaining the first policy that corresponds to a first production host of the production hosts;
identifying a first maximum number of sessions for the first production host specified by the application-level computing resource distribution;
making a determination that the first maximum number of sessions is smaller than the administrator-specified maximum number of sessions; and
specifying the first maximum number of sessions for the first production host in the backup initiation instructions.

7. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein the backups are associated with applications executing on the production hosts.

8. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein the backup storage is separate from the backup agent.

9. The backup agent of claim 8 , wherein the production hosts are separate from the backup storage.

10. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein the production host computing resource characteristics associated with the production hosts are obtained in response to a policy of the backup/restoration policies being triggered.

11. The backup agent of claim 10 , where the policy of the backup/restoration policies is triggered by an occurrence of a predetermined event.

12. The backup agent of claim 11 , wherein the predetermined event is a predetermined point in time.

13. A method for generating backups, comprising:
obtaining production host computing resource characteristics associated with production hosts;
performing a computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts;
performing an availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups;
coordinating generating the backups using the application-level computing resource distribution and backup/restoration policies to obtain the backups by:
generating backup initiation instructions for each production host based on a corresponding policy of the backup/restoration policies and the application-level computing resource distribution by identifying an administrator-specified maximum number of sessions of a first policy of the backup/restoration policies; and
sending the generated backup initiation instructions to corresponding production agents of the production hosts; and

storing the obtained backups in backup storage.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein performing the computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts comprises:
identifying a maximum availability of a plurality of computing resources for each of the production hosts; and
storing each respective plurality of computing resources in a corresponding resource profile of the resource profiles.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein performing the availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups comprises:
identifying a limiting resource of each of the production hosts using the obtained resource profiles;
determining a maximum number of concurrent backup generation sessions for each of the production hosts based on the identified limiting resource of each of the production hosts; and
storing the maximum number of concurrent backup generation sessions for each of the production hosts as the application-level computing resources distribution.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for generating backups, the method comprising:
obtaining production host computing resource characteristics associated with production hosts;
performing a computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts;
performing an availability analysis of the obtained resou

Assignees

• Emc Ip Holding Co Llc

Inventors

• Chopra Shelesh
• Dethe Tushar B
• Khan Asif
• Yadav Sunil
• Urs Deepthi
• Reddy Av Mahesh
• Shankar Dh Swaroop

Classifications

• G06F11/1451

  by selection of backup contents · CPC title

• G06F3/065 Primary

  Replication mechanisms · CPC title

• G06F11/1461

  Backup scheduling policy · CPC title

• G06F3/067

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

• G06F3/0619

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