US 2007/0168500 A1 · Enterprise service availability through identity preservation

Abstract

Systems and methods are described for service availability that provides automated recovery of server service in a timely and application intelligent manner, maintaining application consistency and integrity, while preserving server identity. The systems and methods, referred to herein as a Service Preservation System (SPS), manage complete recovery of server data and preserve continuity of server service, reestablishing user access to server(s) after an event or disaster in which in which primary or other server(s) fail. The failures, disasters, and losses referred to herein can be at many levels and include, but are not limited to, accidental deletion of an item, loss of an entire mailbox, loss of an entire disk drive, loss of an entire server, and/or loss of an entire server site.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

continuously shadowing one or more servers, the servers including application data that provides services to a plurality of clients;
generating and maintaining a copy of the application data on at least one near-line server during the shadowing;
and
restoring the services to the clients using one or more standby servers in response to a detected failure of the one or more servers, the restoring including copying the copy of the application data from the near-line server to the standby server.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/500,864Filed 7 Aug 2006

Priority

7 Feb 2005

Published

19 Jul 2007

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

G06F 16/252
Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems: between a Database Management System and a front-end application
G06F 11/1662
Data re-synchronization of a redundant component, or initial sync of replacement, additional or spare unit: the resynchronized component or unit…
G06F 11/2028
Failover techniques: eliminating a faulty processor or activating a spare
G06F 15/173
Interprocessor communication: using an interconnection network, e.g. matrix, shuffle, pyramid, star, snowflake

Family

Application60/650,556Us provisional application · filed 7 Feb 2005

Application11/211,056Continuation in part · filed 23 Aug 2005

Application11/500,864Continuation in part · filed 7 Aug 2006

US 2006/0179061 A1Published application

US 7,778,976 B2Related patent

US 7,870,416 B2Related patent

US 2007/0168500 A1This patent

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Enterprise service availability through identity preservation

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Enterprise service availability through identity preservation

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Abstract

Claims22