DATA RECOVERY APPARATUS AND DATA RECOVERY METHOD

• US 20120047341A1
• Filed: 08/11/2011
• Published: 02/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Ueda, Yuzuru, ISHINABE, Yuunosuke
• Application Number:
  US13/207,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20120047341A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/162
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1451 by selection of backup contents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1456 Hardware arrangements for backup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1469 Backup restoration techniques

Abstract

A data recovery apparatus includes accepting unit configure to accept an instruction to recover data in a first storage device, generating unit configure to generate difference information describing differences between backup data backed up from the first storage device to a second storage device and data stored in the first storage device at the point in time when the data recovery instruction has been received by the accepting unit; and updating unit configure to update data stored in the first storage device on the basis of the difference information generated by the generating unit and the backup data.

Claims

1. A data recovery apparatus comprising:

accepting unit configure to accept an instruction to recover data in a first storage device;

generating unit configure to generate difference information representing differences between backup data stored in a second storage device backed up from the first storage device and first data stored in the first storage device at the point in time when the accepting unit receives the data recovery instruction; and

updating unit configure to update data stored in the first storage device on the basis of the difference information generated by the generating unit and the backup data.

2. The data recovery apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the second storage device stores backup data backed up from the first storage device at different times, the backup data being organized by their respective backup time points;

the accepting unit accepts an instruction to select any given backup data from among the backup data stored in the second storage device organized by their respective backup time points; and

the generating unit generates difference information representing differences between the given backup data selected and the first data stored in the first storage device at the point in time when the accepting unit receives the data recovery instruction.

3. The data restore apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising comparing unit configure to compare the first data stored in the first storage device at the point in time when the data recovery instruction has been accepted with second data stored in the second storage device, wherein:

the generating unit generates the difference information representing differences between the first data and the second data on the basis of the result of comparison by the comparing unit.

4. The data recovery apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

display unit configure to display difference data representing differences between the first data and the second data on a display screen, the difference data being identified from the difference information, wherein;

the accepting unit accepts an instruction to select any given difference data from among the difference data displayed on the display screen; and

the updating unit updates the first data stored in the first storage device on the basis of the given difference data selected.

5. A data recovery method is performed by computer, the data recovery method comprising:

accepting an instruction to recover data in a first storage device;

generating difference information describing differences between backup data backed up from the first storage device to a second storage device and the set of first data stored in the first storage device at the point in time when the data recovery instruction has been received in the accepting; and

updating data stored in the first storage device on the basis of the difference information generated in the generating and the backup data.

6. A computer-readable, non-transitory medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a data recovery procedure, the data recovery procedure comprising:

accepting an instruction to recover data in a first storage device;

generating difference information indicating differences between backup data backed up from the first storage device to a second storage device and first data stored in the first storage device at the point in time when the data recovery instruction has been received; and

updating data stored in the first storage device on the basis of the generated difference information and the backup data.