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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2014
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Steven Wertheimer, Kentfield, CA (US);
Raymond Guzman, Amherst, NH (US);
Muthu Olagappan, Belmont, CA (US);
William Fisher, Concord, MA (US);
Vladimir Begun, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sriram Nagaraja Rao, Belmont, CA (US);
Beldalker Anand, Bangalore, IN;
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system for centralized tape management are provided for databases. A centralized availability machine or disk and tape backup server maintains working backup data for a plurality of database management systems (DBMSs) based on receiving, from each of the plurality of DBMSs, differential incremental updates. The updates may be at the database block level, with an index maintained to identify different versions of the blocks for snapshot recovery. The availability machine then determines a utilization schedule for distributing the working backup data to a plurality of tapes using a plurality of tape drives, and stores the working backup data as archived backup data on the plurality of tapes according to the utilization schedule. By placing each DBMS within a protection policy that indicates criteria to meet business goals with respect to tape backups, the utilization schedule can automatically schedule tape backup jobs with optimized hardware resource assignments.