Systems and methods for providing business continuity services
AssigneeStrategic Technologies, Inc.
InventorsGeorge B. Wall, Jerry M. Overton, Geoffrey L. Sinn, Paul S. Penny, Steven R. Bulmer
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Abstract
Systems and methods for providing business continuity services after a disaster or other loss of data are provided. The system and methods include accessing, replicating, and storing customer data. In the event of a disaster or other loss of data, the stored data is used to create fully recovered systems. The systems and methods provide for a remote data center that offers protection against physical disasters. The systems and methods include providing a virtual recovered operating system environment identical to the source operating system environment in less than 8 hours after notification of a disaster.
Claims4
A method for providing business continuity services after a disaster or other loss of data comprising:
- (a) accessing data in an operating system environment;
- (b) executing a cloning process in which the data is cloned;
- (c) replicating the data to at least one target server;
- (d) mounting a read-only snapshot of the replicated data to the target server;
- (e) converting the replicated data to a disk file type that can be recovered;
- (f) storing the read-only snapshot and converted data on a storage system;
- (g) receiving notification of disaster or other loss of information at the operating system environment;
- (h) executing scripts to create a snapshot copy of a data volumes on the storage system;
- (i) importing and virtualizing cloned server configuration files;
- (j) attaching the recoverable disk files and snapshot copy of a data volumes to create recovered servers;
- (k) configuring network settings on the recovered servers to mirror a pre-disaster environment;
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- (l) providing secure access to the recovered servers via a Wide Area Network (WAN) cloud.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.