Method and system for performing full backup in a failover cluster

A storage system for providing backups of a failover cluster, the system comprising:

• a processor configured to
• determine that a repository is part of the failover cluster, wherein the failover cluster includes a primary repository and at least one failover candidate as replica of the primary repository,
• based on the determination that the repository is part of the failover cluster, analyzing a first role associated with the repository from repository information stored on the failover cluster, wherein the first role of the repository is either a failover candidate or a primary repository;
• detecting a role change of the repository from the first role to a second role, wherein the second role is one of the failover candidate or the primary repository and different from the first role so that an appropriate type of backup may be performed;
• based upon the analysis that the role of the repository is changed to the failover candidate within the failover cluster, triggering a secondary backup of the repository, and
• based upon the analysis that the role of the repository is changed to the primary repository within the failover cluster, triggering a primary backup of the repository.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having machine readable code embodied therein for providing backups of a failover cluster, the computer program product comprising:

• determining that a repository is part of the failover cluster, wherein the failover cluster includes a primary repository and at least one failover candidate as replica of the primary repository;
• based on a determination that the repository is part of the failover cluster, analyzing a first role associated with the repository from repository information stored on the failover cluster, wherein the first role of the repository is either a failover candidate or a primary repository;
• detecting a role change of the repository from the first role to a second role, wherein the second role is one of the failover candidate or the primary repository and different from the first role so that an appropriate type of backup may be performed;
• based upon the analysis that the role of the repository is changed to the failover candidate within the failover cluster, triggering a secondary backup of the repository;
• and
• based upon the analysis that the role of the repository is changed to the primary repository within the failover cluster, triggering a primary backup of the repository.