US 12,585,552 B2Granted

Protection, recovery, and migration of databases-as-a-service (DBAAS) and/or serverless database management systems (DBMS) in cloud and multi-cloud

AssigneeCommvault Systems, Inc.

InventorsGirish Ramohalli Gopala Rao, Sunil Babu Telagamsetti, Brahmaiah Vallabhaneni, David Alan Oshinsky

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Abstract

A streamlined approach enables customers to retain management control over their data in a database-as-a-service (“DBaaS”) setting, by providing managed backup copies outside cloud service providers' sphere of control. An illustrative data storage management system provides control over performing backup operations to generate managed backup copies, storing managed backup copies, recovering managed backup copies in whole or in part, migrating managed backup copies, and migrating DBaaS instances. Management control also extends to choices of where to store the managed backup copies, whether on the same cloud computing platform as the source DBaaS, on a different cloud computing platform, and/or in a non-cloud data center.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more hardware processors coupled to non-transitory computer memory that comprises computer-executable instructions, which, when executed by the one or more hardware processors configure the system to:
identify a plurality of database-as-a-service (DBaaS) instances associated with a cloud computing account that operates in a cloud computing environment;
generate a proxy image that comprises executable code for a database management system (DBMS) corresponding to each type of DBaaS among the plurality of DBaaS instances, and further comprises executable code for backing up any DBMS having executable code in the proxy image;
initiate a backup operation for a first DBaaS instance of a first type among the plurality of DBaaS instances, by:
(a) activating a first computing resource in the cloud computing environment, wherein the first computing resource is configured with the proxy image, and (b) activating a first DBMS of the first type at the first computing resource, from the proxy image, wherein the backup operation targets first data of the first DBaaS instance;
generate, during the backup operation, one or more backup copies that are based on the first data received from the first DBaaS instance responsive to instructions issued by the first DBMS,
wherein the one or more backup copies are generated in the backup operation without first receiving, at the first computing resource, all of the first data from the first DBaaS instance;
and
storing, during the backup operation, the one or more backup copies into one or more data storage resources.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying, by a first computing device, one or more database-as-a-service (DBaaS) instances that are associated with a cloud computing account of a cloud computing environment,
wherein the first computing device operates in one of:
within the cloud computing account and outside the cloud computing account, and
wherein the first computing device comprises one or more hardware processors and non-transitory computer memory carrying computer-executable instructions that are executed by the one or more hardware processors;
generating a proxy image that comprises executable code for a database management system (DBMS) corresponding to each type of the one or more DBaaS instances identified by the first computing device, and further comprises executable code for backing up one or more DBMSs having executable code in the proxy image;
by the first computing device, initiating a backup operation for a first DBaaS instance of a first type, by:
(a) activating a first computing resource that is configured with the proxy image, and (b) activating a first DBMS of the first type at the first computing device, from the proxy image, wherein the backup operation targets first data of the first DBaaS instance;
by the first computing resource, during the backup operation, receiving the first data from the first DBaaS instance responsive to instructions issued by the first DBMS;
by the first computing resource, during the backup operation, generating one or more backup copies that are based on the first data received from the first DBaaS instance,
wherein the one or more backup copies are generated without first staging, at the first computing resource, all of the first data received from the first DBaaS instance;
and
by the first computing resource, during the backup operation, storing the one or more backup copies into one or more data storage resources.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/538,108Filed 13 Dec 2023 · continuation
Priority: 17 Jun 2019
Published: US 2024/0134753 A125 Apr 2024
Granted: 24 Mar 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification22 codes

G06F 11/1464
Management of the backup or restore process: for networked environments
G06F 9/45558
Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors: hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
G06F 11/1446
Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operations: point-in-time backing up or restoration of persistent data
G06F 11/1451
Management of the data involved in backup or backup restore: by selection of backup contents

Family

Application62/862,558Us provisional application · filed 17 Jun 2019
Application16/711,209Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Dec 2019
Application17/586,580Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Jan 2022
US 11,269,734 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 8 Mar 2022
US 2024/0134753 A1Pre-grant publication · published 25 Apr 2024
US 11,989,101 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2020/0394107 A1Published application
US 2022/0147422 A1Published application
US 12,585,552 B2This patent

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