Method, system and computer program for backing-up data with centralized control

A computer usable program product comprising a computer-usable storage medium including computer usable code for backing-up data in a system, the computer usable code comprising:

• computer usable code for providing a scheduling structure on a selected one of a plurality of host data processing systems, the scheduling structure including an indication of guest data processing systems executing on a second host data processing system enabled to back-up corresponding data;
• computer usable code for verifying inclusion of each enabled guest data processing system executing under the second host data processing system in the scheduling structure;
• computer usable code for receiving from the second host data processing system, in response to the inclusion of each enabled guest data processing system in the scheduling structure, an indication of data corresponding to each enabled data processing system for adding to a control structure on the selected one of the host data processing systems;
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• computer usable code for backing-up the data corresponding to each enabled data processing system executing under the second host data processing system indicated in the control structure under control of the selected one of the host data processing systems.

A system including a plurality of data processing systems, for a set of the data processing systems the system including:

• a storage device including a storage medium, wherein the storage device stores computer usable program code;
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• a processor, wherein the processor executes the computer usable program code, and wherein the computer usable program code comprises:
• computer usable code for providing a scheduling structure on a selected one of a plurality of host data processing systems, the scheduling structure including an indication of guest data processing systems executing on a second host data processing system enabled to back-up corresponding data;
• computer usable code for verifying inclusion of each guest data processing system executing under the second host data processing system in the scheduling structure;
• computer usable code responsive to the inclusion of each enabled guest data processing system in the scheduling structure for receiving from the second host data processing system an indication of data corresponding to each enabled data processing system for adding to a control structure on the selected one of the host data processing systems;
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• computer usable code for backing-up the data corresponding to each enabled data processing system executing under the second host data processing system indicated in the control structure under control of the selected one of the host data processing systems.