BACKUP CONTROL METHOD AND BACKUP CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20100017445A1
• Filed: 09/29/2009
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Eiichi
• Application Number:
  US12/569,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20100017445A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: N/A
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1461 Backup scheduling policy
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1466 to make the backup process non-disruptive

Abstract

A backup control unit controls a normal backup process of backing up a file stored in a NAS device at file system level according to a task schedule set in advance, and controls a forcible backup process of forcibly backing up the file stored in the NAS device at file level upon being triggered by detection of file close of a file stored in a forcible-backup-target file list by an access monitoring unit.

Claims

1. A computer readable storage medium having stored therein a backup control program for performing a backup control process of controlling a backup device that performs a backup process of backing up a backup target file stored in a storage device, the backup control program causing a computer to execute processing procedure comprising:

detecting file open and file close of the backup target file;

storing specific information of the backup target file of which file open is detected at the detecting at the backup process; and

instructing the backup device to back up the backup target file when file close of the backup target file of which specific information is stored at the storing is detected at the detecting.

2. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the backup process includes a normal backup process to be started according to a schedule set in advance, and a forcible backup process to be arbitrarily started irrespective of the schedule,

the storing includes storing specific information of the backup target file of which file open is detected at the detecting at the normal backup process, and

the backup of the backup target file instructed at the instructing is the forcible backup process.

3. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 2, wherein the normal backup process backs up the backup target file at file system level, and the forcible backup process backs up the backup target file at file level.

4. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 3, wherein

the storing includes storing, together with the specific information, the number of file accesses incremented in response to the detection of file open of the backup target file and decremented in response to the detection of file close of the backup target file, and

the processing procedure further comprises

storing specific information of a normal-backup unsuccessful file at the normal backup process, the normal-backup unsuccessful file being the backup target file of which the number of file accesses stored at the storing is not 0;

and

instructing the backup device to back up the normal-backup unsuccessful file by extracting the normal-backup unsuccessful file if the number of file accesses of the normal-backup unsuccessful file stored at the storing is 0, when file close of the normal-backup unsuccessful file stored at the storing is detected at the detecting.

5. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 4, wherein

the processing procedure further comprises:

accumulating the number of times when the backup target file is determined to be the normal-backup unsuccessful file at the storing, each time when the normal backup process is started; and

storing specific information of a forcible-backup target file, the forcible-backup target file being the backup target file when the number of times accumulated by the normal-backup-unsuccessful-number accumulating procedure exceeds a predetermined threshold value, and

the instructing includes instructing the backup device to back up the forcible-backup target file by extracting the forcible-backup target file if the number of file accesses of the forcible-backup target file stored at the storing is 0, when file close of the forcible-backup target file is detected at the detecting.

6. A backup control device for performing a backup control process of controlling a backup device that performs a backup process of backing up a backup target file stored in a storage device, the backup control device comprising:

a file open/close detecting unit that detects file open and file close of the backup target file;

an open-file storing unit that stores specific information of the backup target file of which file open is detected by the file open/close detecting unit at the backup process; and

a backup instructing unit that instructs the backup device to back up the backup target file when file close of the backup target file of which specific information is stored by the open-file storing unit is detected by the file open/close detecting unit.

7. The backup control device according to claim 6, wherein

the backup process includes a normal backup process to be started according to a schedule set in advance, and a forcible backup process to be arbitrarily started irrespective of the schedule,

the open-file storing unit stores specific information of the backup target file of which file open is detected by the file open/close detecting unit at the normal backup process, and

the backup of the backup target file instructed by the backup instructing unit is the forcible backup process.

8. The backup control device according to claim 7, wherein the normal backup process backs up the backup target file at file system level, and the forcible backup process backs up the backup target file at file level.

9. The backup control device according to claim 8, wherein

the open-file storing unit stores, together with the specific information, the number of file accesses incremented in response to detection of file open of the backup target file and decremented in response to detection of file close of the backup target file, and

the backup control device further comprises:

a normal-backup-failure storing unit that stores specific information of a normal-backup unsuccessful file at the normal backup process, normal-backup unsuccessful file being the backup target file of which the number of file accesses stored by the open-file storing unit is not 0; and

a forcible-backup instructing unit that instructs the backup device to back up the normal-backup unsuccessful file by extracting the normal-backup unsuccessful file if the number of file accesses of the normal-backup unsuccessful file stored by the open-file storing unit is 0, when file close of the normal-backup unsuccessful file stored by the normal-backup-failure storing unit is detected.

10. The backup control device according to claim 9, further comprising:

a normal-backup-unsuccessful-number accumulating unit that accumulates the number of times when the backup target file is determined to be the normal-backup unsuccessful file by the normal-backup-failure storing unit, each time when the normal backup process is started; and

a forcible-backup-target storing unit that stores specific information of a forcible-backup target file, the forcible-backup target file being the backup target file when the number of times accumulated by the normal-backup-unsuccessful-number accumulating unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value, wherein

the forcible-backup instructing unit instructs the backup device to back up the forcible-backup target file by extracting the forcible-backup target file if the number of file accesses of the forcible-backup target file stored by the open-file storing unit is 0, when file close of the forcible-backup target file is detected by the file open/close detecting unit.

11. A backup control method for performing a backup control process of controlling a backup device that performs a backup process of backing up a backup target file stored in a storage device, the backup control method comprising:

detecting file open and file close of the backup target file;

storing specific information of the backup target file of which file open is detected at the detecting at the backup process; and

instructing the backup device to back up the backup target file when file close of the backup target file of which specific information is stored at the storing is detected at the detecting.

12. The backup control method according to claim 11, wherein

the backup process includes a normal backup process to be started according to a schedule set in advance, and a forcible backup process to be arbitrarily started irrespective of the schedule,

the storing includes storing specific information of the backup target file of which file open is detected at the detecting at the normal backup process, and

the backup of the backup target file instructed at the instructing is the forcible backup process.

13. The backup control method according to claim 12, wherein the normal backup process backs up the backup target file at file system level, and the forcible backup process backs up the backup target file at file level.

14. The backup control method according to claim 13, wherein

the storing includes storing, together with the specific information, the number of file accesses incremented in response to the detection of file open of the backup target file and decremented in response to the detection of file close of the backup target file, and

the backup control method further comprises

storing specific information of a normal-backup unsuccessful file at the normal backup process, the normal-backup unsuccessful file being the backup target file of which the number of file accesses stored at the storing is not 0;

and

instructing the backup device to back up the normal-backup unsuccessful file by extracting the normal-backup unsuccessful file if the number of file accesses of the normal-backup unsuccessful file stored at the storing is 0, when file close of the normal-backup unsuccessful file stored at the storing is detected at the detecting.

15. The backup control method according to claim 14, further comprising:

accumulating the number of times when the backup target file is determined to be the normal-backup unsuccessful file at the storing, each time when the normal backup process is started; and

storing specific information of a forcible-backup target file, the forcible-backup target file being the backup target file when the number of times accumulated by the normal-backup-unsuccessful-number accumulating procedure exceeds a predetermined threshold value, wherein

the instructing includes instructing the backup device to back up the forcible-backup target file by extracting the forcible-backup target file if the number of file accesses of the forcible-backup target file stored at the storing is 0, when file close of the forcible-backup target file is detected at the detecting.