Apparatus for highly available transaction recovery for transaction processing systems
First Claim
1. A transaction recovery apparatus, comprising:
- a shared storage to store a first transaction log corresponding to a first server and a second transaction log corresponding to a second server, an interface to the first server, the first server having a first transaction recovery service to failover migrate from the first server to the second server when the first server fails; and
an interface to the second server;
the second server having a second transaction recovery service to coordinate transactions from the first transaction log upon the failover migration of the first transaction recovery service.
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Abstract
A highly available transaction recovery service migration system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention implements a server'"'"'s Transaction Recovery Service (TRS) as a migratable service. In one embodiment of the present invention, the TRS is a server instance or software module implemented in JAVA. The TRS migrates to an available server that resides in the same cluster as the failed server. The migrated TRS obtains the TLOG of the failed server, reads the transaction log, and performs transaction recovery on behalf of the failed server. The migration may occur manually or automatically on a migratable services framework. The TRS of the failed server migrates back in a fail back operation once the failed primary server is restarted. Failback operation may occur whether recovery is completed or not. This expedites recovery and improves availability of the failed server thereby preserving the efficiency of the network and other servers.
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1. A transaction recovery apparatus, comprising:
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a shared storage to store a first transaction log corresponding to a first server and a second transaction log corresponding to a second server, an interface to the first server, the first server having a first transaction recovery service to failover migrate from the first server to the second server when the first server fails; and
an interface to the second server;
the second server having a second transaction recovery service to coordinate transactions from the first transaction log upon the failover migration of the first transaction recovery service. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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7. The transaction recovery apparatus of claim 7 wherein the first transaction recovery service is configured to be deactivated, moved from the second server instance to the first server instance, and activated on the first server instance.
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