Automatically setting a dynamic backup policy in a cloud environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020019471-A1
Application number	US-201816035246-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 13, 2018
Priority date	Jul 13, 2018
Publication date	Jan 16, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

Systems and methods for performing data protection operation on an application in a manner that is integrated with the environment of the application being protected. A dynamic policy is associated with the data protection application so that a data protection operation can be performed whenever the policy is triggered.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for performing a data protection operation in a cloud based application, the method comprising:
determining that an action is to be performed on an application or on a portion of the application; evaluating the action, based on a policy to determine whether to perform the data protection operation; and performing the data protection operation when the action satisfies the policy.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a notification that the action is to be performed.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the action includes one of an upgrade to a component of the application, a scaling of the application, or an addition to the application.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the action include a push to production.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that an action is to be performed on an application includes monitoring the application and determining that a monitoring event has occurred.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the monitoring event includes at least one of crossing a threshold related to traffic, detecting a hardware outage, or detecting a hardware change.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the data protection application includes a backup operation.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising updating the policy dynamically based on the action or other actions related to the application.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising integrating the application with a data protection application.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein evaluating the action, based on a policy to determine whether to perform the data protection operation, includes automatically creating a backup whenever there is a deployment or whenever the application is upgraded or whenever a function is added or modified.

11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein evaluating the action, based on a policy to determine whether to perform the data protection operation includes automatically creating a backup whenever the application is scaled.

12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein evaluating the action, based on a policy to determine whether to perform the data protection operation includes creating a backup whenever there is a change in traffic or a service failure of a failed health check on the application.

13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the backup application is integrated with monitoring tools wherein evaluating the action, based on a policy to determine whether to perform the data protection operation includes creating a backup on prior to each push to production.

14 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising performing a backup to run in an integration or staging environment.

15 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising creating a backup on degradation of a cluster or based on an infrastructure outage.

16 . The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the backup is initiated by a microservice.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein code of the application is annotated with a backup indicator, further comprising performing the data protection application when the backup indicator is reached during execution of the code.

18 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising monitoring services included in the application and performing the data protection application without disturbing underlying code of the monitored services.

Assignees

• Emc Ip Holding Co Llc

Inventors

• Natanzon Assaf
• Rhodes Michael
• Bett Antony
• Al-Alem Luay

Classifications

• G06F8/65 Primary

  Updates (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57) · CPC title

• G06F11/1464

  for networked environments · CPC title

• G06F11/1461 Primary

  Backup scheduling policy · CPC title

• G06F21/60

  Protecting data · CPC title

• G06F11/302

  where the computing system component is a software system · CPC title