International Business Machines Corporation

Barbara Wald

Thomas Hermann Gnech

Eric Kass

Andreas Uhl

Stefan Schmitt

Michael H Schlachter

Oliver Rau

Ephraim Petry

Computer-implemented methods for optimizing a backup and recovery strategy of a database are provided. Aspects include obtaining service level agreements for the database, identifying an initial recommended database backup and recovery strategy for the database based on the service level agreements, and configuring a database backup of the database based on the initial recommended database backup and recovery strategy. Aspects also include monitoring a usage of one or more of the database and the database backup, identifying a recommended change to the configuration of the database backup based on the usage of one or more of the database and the database backup, and updating the configuration of the primary database based on the recommended change.

Database backup and recovery strategy optimization

A method for handling e-mail communication by an e-mail server is provided. The method includes receiving an e-mail by the e-mail server, parsing the e-mail to identify a large content item within the e-mail, generating a modified e-mail by replacing the large content item within the e-mail with an identifier, storing the large content item and the large content item forms a basis for a weblog associated with the identifier, sending the modified e-mail, and receiving a reply e-mail to the modified e-mail and the content of the reply e-mail builds an extension to the weblog.

Deduplication of e-mail content by an e-mail server

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Schoenbuch, Germany

Barbara Wald