DATA STORAGE RECOVERY AUTOMATION

• US 20130262396A1
• Filed: 03/07/2013
• Published: 10/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Gokhale, Parag, Kripalani, Sanjay Harakhchand
• Granted Patent: US 9,286,327 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/674
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1456 Hardware arrangements for backup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1464 for networked environments
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1469 Backup restoration techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/84 Using snapshots, i.e. a logical point-in-time copy of the data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

According to certain aspects, systems and methods are provided for automating recovery of a networked data storage environment. For instance, a system can generate a data recovery package configured to automatically carry out a process for recovering a data storage environment and/or associated data. The content of the particular workflow depends on the data storage environment, and can be defined by a user.

Claims

1. A method of automating recovery of a networked data storage environment, comprising:

receiving an indication of user selection of a plurality of commands for inclusion in a data storage recovery automation package;

generating, at a first point in time and by a first computing device, the automated data recovery package, the recovery automation package configured, upon execution, to recover at least a portion of a data storage environment implemented on a first set of computer hardware devices to a second set of computer hardware devices that is remote from the first set of computer hardware devices; and

storing the automated recovery package on first storage,

wherein the automated data recovery package is, at a second point in time later than the first point in time, accessed from the first storage and invoked for execution on a second computing device that is remote from the first computing device, and

wherein execution of the data recovery package causes automatic execution the plurality of commands to completion.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatic execution is performed to completion without human intervention.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected commands include commands to at least:

install an instance of a first data storage component that was installed on at least one computing device in the first set of computer hardware devices on at least one computing device in the second set of computer hardware devices; and

use the installed instance of the first data storage component to copy at least a portion of a data store onto one or more storage devices in the second set of computer hardware devices, the data store including a copy of production data that was generated by one or more applications executing on one or more client computing devices in the first set of computer hardware devices.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the automated recovery package includes configuration parameters associated with the first data storage component, and wherein the configuration parameters are utilized to automatically configure the instance of the first component that is installed on the at least one computing device in the second set of one or more computer hardware devices.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

creating a copy of configuration parameters associated with the first data storage component and that is stored remotely from the first set of computer hardware devices,

wherein execution of the data recovery package causes the remote copy of the configuration parameters to be accessed and utilized to automatically configure the instance of the first data storage component that is installed on the at least computing device in the second set of computer hardware devices.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the first component comprises a media agent module configured to manage data storage operations between one or more client computing devices in the second set of computer hardware devices and one or more storage devices in the second set of computer hardware devices.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the selected commands include a command to install a storage manager module onto a computing device in the second set of computer hardware devices, the storage manager module configured to, for a given data storage operation, instruct a particular media agent module installed on the second set of computer hardware devices to manage a given data storage operation.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

accessing, by the first computing device, a database including executable versions of a set of available commands;

extracting, by the first computing device and from the database, executable versions of the selected commands, wherein said generating comprises assembling the extracted executable versions to form the data recovery package.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the data recovery package comprises a listing of code segments, each of the code segments corresponding to one of the selected commands.

10. A computer system, comprising:

one or more first computer processors;

first storage media having a database stored thereon which includes a set of recovery automation commands,

a recovery automation interface executing in the one or more first computer processors and configured to receive an indications of user selection of a plurality of the recovery automation commands for inclusion in an automated recovery process in which at least a portion of a data storage environment implemented on a first set of computer hardware devices is recovered on a second set of computer hardware devices that is remote from the first set of computer hardware devices; and

a recovery automation module executing in the one or more computer processors and configured to generate, at a first point in time, an automated data recovery package comprising a representation of the selected commands,

wherein the automated data recovery package is, at a second point in time later than the first point in time, accessed from storage media and invoked for execution on one or more second computer processors that are remote from the one or more first computer processors, and

wherein execution of the data recovery package causes automatic execution the plurality of commands to completion.

11. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the automatic execution is performed to completion without human intervention.

12. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the selected commands include commands to at least:

install an instance of a first data storage component that was installed on at least one computing device in the first set of computer hardware devices on at least one computing device in the second set of computer hardware devices; and

use the installed instance of the first data storage component to copy at least a portion of a data store onto one or more storage devices in the second set of computer hardware devices, the data store including a copy of production data that was generated by one or more applications executing on one or more client computing devices in the first set of computer hardware devices.

13. The computer system of claim 12, wherein the automated recovery package includes configuration parameters associated with the first data storage component, and wherein the configuration parameters are utilized to automatically configure the instance of the first component that is installed on the at least one computing device in the second set of one or more computer hardware devices.

14. The computer system of claim 12, further comprising:

creating a copy of configuration parameters associated with the first data storage component and that is stored remotely from the first set of computer hardware devices,

wherein execution of the data recovery package causes the remote copy of the configuration parameters to be accessed and utilized to automatically configure the instance of the first data storage component that is installed on the at least computing device in the second set of computer hardware devices.

15. The computer system of claim 12, wherein the first component comprises a media agent module configured to manage data storage operations between one or more client computing devices in the second set of computer hardware devices and one or more storage devices in the second set of computer hardware devices.

16. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the selected commands include a command to install a storage manager module onto a computing device in the second set of computer hardware devices, the storage manager module configured to, for a given data storage operation, instruct a particular media agent module installed on the second set of computer hardware devices to manage a given data storage operation.

17. The computer system of claim 10, further comprising:

accessing, by the first computing device, a database including executable versions of a set of available commands;

extracting, by the first computing device and from the database, executable versions of the selected commands, wherein said generating comprises assembling the extracted executable versions to form the data recovery package.

18. A method of performing automated recovery of a data storage system, comprising:

accessing, from storage media, and using one or more processors, a data recovery automation package comprising a plurality of commands for recovering at least a portion of a data storage environment implemented on a first set of one or more computer hardware devices, the data recovery automation package generated at a first point in time earlier than a second point in time at which said accessing occurs;

automatically performing, using one or more computer processors, a first command of the plurality of commands by installing a first data storage component that was installed on at least one computing device in the first set of computer hardware devices on at least one computing device in a second set of one or more computer hardware devices; and

automatically performing, using one or more computer processors, a second command of the plurality of commands by using the first data storage component to copy at least a portion of a data store onto one or more storage devices in the second set of one or more computer hardware devices, the data store including production data generated by at least one application running on at least one client computing device in the first set of one or more computer hardware devices.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the first set of one or more computer hardware devices are remote from the second set of one or more computer hardware devices.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein execution of the data recovery package causes automatic execution the plurality of commands to completion, without user intervention.