Cloud-based air-gapped data storage management system

    公开(公告)号:US12130708B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US17120555

    申请日:2020-12-14

    IPC分类号: G06F11/14 G06F21/56 G06F21/62

    摘要: An illustrative cloud-based air-gapped data storage management (destination) system obtains authorized access to other (source) systems' backup copies, replicates those copies within the destination system, parses supplemental metadata included in the source backup copies, and integrates the replica copies into the destination system as though natively created there. Replica copies are integrated as backup copies without first restoring the source backup copies to a native data format. The source system lacks knowledge of or connectivity with the destination system, thus maintaining an “air gap” between the systems. The destination system preferably operates in a cloud computing environment. The destination system uses supplemental metadata from the replica copies to re-create or mimic the source's computing environment and to restore backed up data from the replica copies. The destination system also operates as an autonomous analytics engine, applying value-added services to backed up data pulled from source system(s).

    RESILIENCY OF A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM BY PROTECTING ITS MANAGEMENT DATABASE TO MEET A RECOVERY POINT OBJECTIVE (RPO)

    公开(公告)号:US20240320105A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18672466

    申请日:2024-05-23

    IPC分类号: G06F11/14

    摘要: An illustrative data storage management system comprises a management database that stores administrative preferences and system configurations, as well as results and/or statistics of completed secondary storage operations, i.e., information needed by the system to protect customers' data and to track and recover the protected data, including secondary copies such as backup copies, archive copies, etc. The disclosed data storage management system is configured to protect its own system data subject to a very aggressive (short) Recovery Point Objective (RPO), by using an innovative infrastructure that enables the system's storage manager to fail over to any number of other failover destination storage managers, each one comprising a destination management database. An illustrative database granularly tracks whether each and every transaction log file has been successfully applied to each and every destination management database to synchronize with the source management database.

    Backup index generation process
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12099414B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-24

    申请号:US17709205

    申请日:2022-03-30

    IPC分类号: G06F9/50 G06F11/14 G06F11/20

    摘要: Container images may be generated from a backup system that includes a backup of one or more applications from a computing system of an entity. During a backup process, an application can be identified and its storage location in a secondary storage can be tracked or saved in a backup index. Configuration information and data or files created by user interaction with the application can be backed up and the location of the backed up data or files may be stored in the backup index along with the location of the configuration information. Using the backup index, a container image can be created that includes a selected application, its configuration information, and data, if any, created by the application. The container image can be generated from the backup stored in the secondary storage.

    SCALABLE JOB MANAGER SERVICE FOR DATA MANAGEMENT-AS-A-SERVICE (DMaaS)

    公开(公告)号:US20240296099A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-05

    申请号:US18582910

    申请日:2024-02-21

    IPC分类号: G06F11/14

    CPC分类号: G06F11/1461 G06F2201/80

    摘要: An improved system architecture for scaling deployments of data management-as-a-service (DMaaS) distributes “job manager” functionality so that a large-scale data storage management system may be deployed in a cloud computing environment as DMaaS without experiencing performance bottlenecks that slow down core data protection operations at scale. The disclosed solution creates an infrastructure where job manager features run on any number of distinct machines or compute resources that act as local job managers. In the illustrative DMaaS, any number of components that scale horizontally (“the distributed components”) carry job management responsibility for storage management operations such as backup jobs, auxiliary copy jobs, archive jobs, etc. These distributed components are configured to perform locally as job managers and to see each storage management job through from beginning to end without centralized control. These distributed components or local job managers also maintain, collect, and locally store job metadata.

    ENHANCED NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE (NAS) SERVICES INTERFACING TO CLOUD STORAGE

    公开(公告)号:US20240275849A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18646043

    申请日:2024-04-25

    摘要: An illustrative storage management appliance is interposed between client computing devices and one or more cloud storage resources. The appliance uses cloud storage resources in conjunction with a network attached storage device configured within the appliance to provide to the client computing devices seemingly unlimited network attached storage on respective network shares. The storage management appliance monitors data objects on the network shares and when a data object meets one or more criteria for archiving, the storage management appliance archives the data object to a cloud storage resource and replaces it with a stub and preview image on the network share. When access to the stub and/or preview image is detected, the storage management appliance restores the data object from the cloud storage resource. The criteria for archiving flexibly allow individual data objects to be archived to cloud storage without archiving frequently-accessed “neighboring” data objects on the same network share.

    CLOUD-BASED FILE AND OBJECT ARCHIVE
    10.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240256484A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-01

    申请号:US18408075

    申请日:2024-01-09

    IPC分类号: G06F16/11 G06F16/13

    CPC分类号: G06F16/113 G06F16/13

    摘要: The disclosed data storage management system enables data owners to model the costs and attributes of archiving their data and to readily capture and implement one or more resultant archiving plans. Modeling enables data owners to make informed choices about cost profiles before data is actually archived. Archiving plans devised according to these choices are intended to save on data storage costs and provide a compliance-ready data archive in cloud storage repository(ies). Armed with archiving simulations supplied by the illustrative data storage management system, a data owner may control data placement to predict costs, free up primary storage, and move inactive data to less expensive archive storage. Preferably, the disclosed system is implemented as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, and the accompanying archive storage is implemented as a cloud storage service, but the invention is not limited to SaaS or to cloud-based data archives.