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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2010
Ludmila Cherkasova, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xin Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaozhou LI, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ludmila Cherkasova, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xin Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaozhou Li, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods of enhanced backup job scheduling are disclosed. An example method may include determining a number of jobs (n) in a backup set, determining a number of tape drives (m) in the backup device, and determining a number of concurrent disk agents (maxDA) configured for each tape drive. The method may also include defining a scheduling problem based on n, m, and maxDA. The method may also include solving the scheduling problem using an integer programming (IP) formulation to derive a bin-packing schedule that minimizes makespan (S) for the backup set.