System for Highly Available Transaction Recovery for Transaction Processing Systems
First Claim
1. A transaction recovery system comprising:
- a first server instance having transaction recovery functionality, the first server instance owning a first transaction log;
a second server instance having transaction recovery functionality, the second server instance owning a second transaction log; and
a shared memory, the first transaction log and the second transaction log residing on the shared memory, wherein normally the first server instance coordinates at least one transaction from the first transaction log and wherein, upon the failure of the first server instance, the second server instance coordinates the at least one transaction from the first transaction log.
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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 system comprising:
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a first server instance having transaction recovery functionality, the first server instance owning a first transaction log;
a second server instance having transaction recovery functionality, the second server instance owning a second transaction log; and
a shared memory, the first transaction log and the second transaction log residing on the shared memory, wherein normally the first server instance coordinates at least one transaction from the first transaction log and wherein, upon the failure of the first server instance, the second server instance coordinates the at least one transaction from the first transaction log. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for recovering transactions comprising:
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a primary server having a transaction log, and a backup server, wherein upon a failure of the primary server, the backup server is operable to read the transaction log and perform recovery on behalf of the failed primary server. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A cluster of servers configured to provide transaction recovery comprising:
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a primary server having a transaction log, the primary server and transaction log residing in the cluster; and
a backup server residing in the cluster and having access to the transaction log, the backup server operable to read the transaction log and perform recovery on behalf of the failed primary server. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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