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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Aharon Abadi, Petach Tikva, IL;
Roie Melamed, Haifa, IL;
Hisham Yasin, Haifa, IL;
Ashraf Haib, Haifa, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A document management system including a document manager connected to a document storage, and a backup coordinator connected to the document manager and adapted to: continuously receive a plurality of notifications from the document manager, each including information describing a change in a document stored in the document manager's document storage; and for each notification in the plurality of notifications: select a backup agent from a plurality of backup agents connected to the backup coordinator; send a backup request to the backup agent including the information, for the purpose of updating a copy of the document stored in a backup storage connected to the backup agent; wait for an acknowledgement message from the backup agent; and send another backup request to another backup agent selected from the plurality of backup agents upon a failure to receive the acknowledgement message within an identified amount of time after sending the backup request.