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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2003
Nagraj Ramachandran Alur, San Jose, CA (US);
Vitthal M. Gogate, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inderpal Singh Narang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ramani Ranjan Routray, San Jose, CA (US);
Mahadevan Subramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Nagraj Ramachandran Alur, San Jose, CA (US);
Vitthal M. Gogate, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inderpal Singh Narang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ramani Ranjan Routray, San Jose, CA (US);
Mahadevan Subramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method to automatically and dynamically optimize available resources to meet application data availability and business objectives. In one embodiment, a backup and data recovery system continually and dynamically adjust to the backup and recovery or restore process depending on the customer's environment, workload, and business objectives. Acceptable tolerance of downtime due to recovery and backup impacts the customer's business or system operation. From this high-level business requirement, the present system determines the backup and recovery plan details. The present system accepts application data availability policies based on business objectives, and devises, executes and refines a resource optimal backup and recovery strategy required to deliver the desired quality of service in the environments that have dynamically changing application workloads, business objectives, and hardware/software infrastructure technologies. In addition, the present system performs backups outside blocked windows to minimize the impact on the customer's system.