US 2016/0253245 A1Published application

System, method and program product for backing up data

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorRajkumar Karuppiah

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Abstract

System, method and program product for backing up a plurality of data files from a first server to a second server via a network. A determination is made that more than one compressed data file at the second server, downloaded by the first server, is waiting to be decompressed. A determination is made whether an amount of available processor resource in the second server exceeds a predetermined threshold. If the amount of available processor resource in the second server exceeds the predetermined threshold, a plurality of data decompression programs are invoked in the second server to decompress the plurality of compressed data files substantially concurrently, and data updates in the decompressed data files are applied to corresponding files in the second server.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A method for processing two or more data update files at a primary server for transmission to a backup server, the two or more data update files including data updates to one or more data files stored at both the primary server and the backup server, the backup server being coupled to the primary server via a network, the method comprising:

providing at least one support service for at least one of creating, integrating, hosting, maintaining, and deploying computer readable code in a computer system comprising a processor, wherein the processor carries out instructions contained in the code causing the computer system to perform the method that further comprises:
the primary server determining that the two or more data update files at the primary server are waiting to be compressed;
the primary server determining if the primary server has more than a predetermined level of available processor power and if the network has more than a predetermined level of available bandwidth, and
if so, the primary server compressing the two or more data update files at least partially in parallel, and
if not, the primary server compressing the two or more data update files sequentially;
and
the primary server sending to the backup server via the network the two or more data update files which have been compressed so the backup server can update the corresponding one or more data files at the backup server.

4 more elements

A computer system for processing two or more data update files at a primary server for transmission to a backup server, the two or more data update files including data updates to one or more data files stored at both the primary server and the backup server, the backup server being coupled to the primary server via a network, the computer program product comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU);
a memory coupled to the CPU;
and
a computer readable hardware storage device coupled to the CPU;
first program instructions, for execution at the primary server, to determine that the two or more data update files at the primary server are waiting to be compressed;
second program instructions, for execution at the primary server, to determine if the primary server has more than a predetermined level of available processor power and if the network has more than a predetermined level of available bandwidth, and
if so, compress the two or more data update files at least partially in parallel, and
if not, compress the two or more data update files sequentially;
and
third program instructions, for execution at the primary server, to send to the backup server via the network the two or more data update files which have been compressed so the backup server can update the corresponding one or more data files at the backup server;
and wherein
the first, second and third program instructions are stored on the computer-readable, tangible storage device.

9 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/153,935Filed 13 May 2016
Priority: 6 Jun 2007
Published: 1 Sep 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G06F 11/1461
Management of the backup or restore process: backup scheduling policy
G06F 11/1448
Point-in-time backing up or restoration of persistent data: management of the data involved in backup or backup restore
G06F 11/1456
Point-in-time backing up or restoration of persistent data: hardware arrangements for backup
G06F 11/1464
Management of the backup or restore process: for networked environments

Family

Application11/758,860Continuation · filed 6 Jun 2007
Application14/452,567Continuation · filed 6 Aug 2014
Application15/153,935Continuation
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