Data replication across servers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9875161-B2
Application number	US-201615369934-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 6, 2016
Priority date	Oct 6, 2014
Publication date	Jan 23, 2018
Grant date	Jan 23, 2018

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for replicating data between redundant sources. In one embodiment, during a reverse replication process, roles of a source system and target system are altered such that the target system controls the replication process. The target system can identify objects to be transferred, build batches of objects for efficient transfer, and transmit the batches of objects to the source system. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention can reduce inefficient communication between a source system and a target system that might otherwise occur during replication processes controlled by the source system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer system for replicating data between redundant resources, the computer system comprising:
one or more computer processors;
one or more computer readable non-transitory storage media; and
program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable non-transitory storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to receive, at a source computer system, an instruction to replicate the source computer system and a target computer system, wherein the source computer system receives the instruction to replicate the source computer system and the target computer system in response to detecting that one or more objects stored in the source computer system have been modified since a previous replication, and wherein the target system is a redundant system that provides a back up to the source system in the event of maintenance or failure of the source system;
program instructions to determine, by the source system, a first list of objects on the source computer system;
program instructions to determine, by the target system, a second list of objects on the target computer system;
program instructions to compare the first list of objects on the source computer system with the second list of objects on the target computer system to identify one or more objects stored in the target computer system that are not stored in the source computer system;
program instructions to alter the roles of the source system and the target system and release control of the replication process for the duration of reverse replication;
program instructions to transmit a request from the source computer system to the target computer system for the one or more identified objects, wherein the request from the source computer system to the target computer system for the one or more identified objects comprises a request in a structured query language;
program instructions to, responsive to transmitting the request from the source computer system to the target computer system for the one or more identified objects, transmit an instruction from the source computer system to the target computer system to build one or more batches of objects comprising the one or more identified objects;
program instructions to generate the one or more batches of objects comprising the one or more identified objects; and
program instructions to, responsive to generating, at the target computer, one or more batches of objects comprising the one or more identified objects to commence replication when the number of generated one or more batches exceed a predefined threshold for transmission, transmit the one or more batches of objects from the target computer system to the source computer system.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Anglin Matthew J
• Fruchtman Barry

Classifications

• G06F16/27

  Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor · CPC title

• G06F17/30575

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/1097

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• G06F11/1464 Primary

  for networked environments · CPC title

• H04L67/1095 Primary

  Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes · CPC title