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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Nils Haustein, Soergenloch, DE;
Joerg Mueller, Horb, DE;
Thomas Prause, Rottenburg am Neckar, DE;
Michael H. Schlachter, Metzingen, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Performing automated and self-adjusting backup operations by executing the following steps: Determining a time of last backup operation for a data block. Obtaining an audit trail based on the time of last backup operation for the data block and a current time. Ordering read operations and write operations of the data block into a chronological sequence based on the audit trail. Generating a weighting element for read operations and a weighting element for write operations of the data block such that a weighting of read operations are greater than or less than the weighting of a write operations. Calculating a weighted sum of weighted read operations and weighted write operations for said data block. Respond to a result of a comparison between the weighted sum and at least one threshold value by performing a type of backup operation.