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Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Thomas H. Gnech, Boeblingen, DE;

Steffen Koenig, Boeblingen, DE;

Oliver Petrik, Boeblingen, DE;

Petra Wagner, Boeblingen, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/21 (2019.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1448 (2013.01); G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 11/368 (2013.01); G06F 16/219 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 2201/80 (2013.01);
Abstract

Backup management of software environments in a distributed network environment includes: Creating a platform specific software environment according to a predefined software environment definition by a user in the network environment; automatically creating a generalized backup of the software environment by extracting platform independent data contents and platform specific transformation rules; automatically calculating enhanced meta data describing the generalized backup; assigning the enhanced metadata with the predefined software environment definition; registering the generalized backup with the enhanced metadata in a backup storage accessible by a plurality of distributed users connected via said network environment, creating a software environment according to a predefined software environment definition by automatically checking the backup storage for an available generalized backup by means of the predefined software environment definition.


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