Dell Products Inc.

Rejith Mohan M

Navneet Upadhyay

Elango Chockalingam

Amith Ramachandran

Shivaraj Abbigeri

Gowtham Krishna Iyengar Srinivasa Rangan

Xiaoliang Zhu

Shraddha Chunekar

Xiaolei Hu

Pati Mohan

Ban Wang

Shaofeng Chang

Amrit Lal Jain

Haritha Kora

Iresha Gadikar

William E Crosby, Iii

A method for managing data protection operations includes obtaining, by a data protection system, a policy request for configuring a data protection policy on the database system, wherein the database system comprises at least one active computing node, in response to obtaining the policy request: making a first determination that a first computing node of the database system has been discovered via deep discovery, updating a selection of computing nodes with the first computing node, making a second determination that a second computing node of the database system has not been discovered via the deep discovery, not including the second computing node in the selection, and performing a protection configuration on the selection of computing nodes to install the data protection policy to each computing node in the selection of computing nodes, and wherein the data protection policy comprises storage location information used for backing up a database.

Self-service data protection operation of active-passive and active-active database clusters

In general, the technology relates to a method for managing database copies, the method includes receiving a request to perform copy discovery on a database, wherein the database is associated with a unique identifier (UID), identifying, using an agent operatively connected to the database, entries corresponding to copies of the database specified in a catalog that are associated with the UID, wherein the catalog is associated with the database, and providing, by the agent, information about the identified copies to a data manager, wherein a data manager applies a retention policy to the identified copies.

Utilizing immutable unique identifiers to tag database to enable granular management of database copies

In general, the technology relates to A method for managing databases, the method includes receiving a database identifier (DID) for a database, generating, using the DID, a unique identifier (UID) for the database, making a first determination that the UID does not exist in any agent service records, based on the first determination, making a second determination that at least one backup copy of the database exists, based on the second determination: creating an agent service record that comprises the UID and a tag, wherein a value of the tag is DIRTY, initiating copy discovery of the database, and receiving a notification that the copy discovery has been completed, wherein after the notification, requests from a data manager comprising the UID are permitted to be provided to an agent, wherein the request a backup request or request for copy discovery.

Managing database protection after updating the data manager to utilize immutable unique identifiers

In general, the technology relates to a method for managing databases, the method includes receiving a database identifier (DID) for a database, generating, using the DID, a unique identifier (UID) for the database, determining, after the generating, that the database is associated with a data protection policy, and permitting backup operations specifying the UID to be serviced by an agent operatively connected to the database.

Utilizing immutable unique identifiers to manage database protection

In general, embodiments relate to a method for backing up databases, the method includes receiving a backup request, wherein the backup request specifies a role of primary and an asset group identifier for an asset group, identifying, based on the backup request, a database in the asset group, and issuing the backup request for the database.

Scheduling backups on a primary database in a high-availability configuration

In general, in one aspect, the technology relates to a method for backing up assets, the method comprising: making a first determination about an asset type of an asset, based on the first determination, associating the asset with an asset group, wherein all assets in the asset group are of the asset type, and protecting the asset in the asset group using a backup strategy associated with the asset group.

Management of asset groups

Described is a system for management of specialized files used for a backup restore. The system may allow for an automated recovery to be performed without having to manually identify critical information required to perform a restore of a particular backup within a backup chain. This information may include a control file and a parameter file. A backup agent may store such information within specialized objects that are stored as part of metadata managed by a backup agent to provide an additional layer of recover capability and efficiency. This information may then be leveraged for retrieval during a restore operation, for example, in a disaster recovery scenario.

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Bengaluru, India

Rejith Mohan M