INTELLIGENT SCHEDULING FOR REMOTE COMPUTERS

• US 20130332505A1
• Filed: 06/08/2012
• Published: 12/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Karandikar, Amey Vijaykumar
• Granted Patent: US 8,977,672 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1461 Backup scheduling policy
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3017 where the computing system is implementing multitasking multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5083 Techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• 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]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests

Abstract

A method of protecting data on a mobile computing device using a storage network by deploying to the mobile computing device, a synchronization agent and then associating a synchronization policy with the synchronization agent. The mobile computing device is monitored for at least one threshold event. Its determined that the threshold event has occurred which causes a request to initiate a data synchronization event to be transmitted. The response to the request is synchronizing the mobile computing device with the storage network.

Claims

1. A method for scheduling data storage events in a storage network comprising a portable device communicating over a network with a server, the method comprising:

configuring at the server, and deploying to the portable device, a data storage policy;

implementing, on the portable device, the data storage policy using an intelligent scheduling agent;

monitoring, on the portable device, at least one threshold event;

determining that the at least one threshold event has occurred;

transmitting a request to the server to implement a data storage event; and

responding, by the server, to the request and implementing the data storage event on the portable device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising delaying the transmission of the request for a predetermined time.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

further monitoring, during the delaying step, of the at least one threshold event;

upon determining that the at least one threshold event has ceased to occur, cancelling the transmitting step.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

further monitoring, during the implementing step, of the at least one threshold event;

upon determining that the at least one threshold event has ceased to occur, the intelligent scheduling agent suspends the implementation of the data storage event.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring step comprises at least one of the steps of:

monitoring a time interval;

monitoring the network;

monitoring a power state of the portable device;

monitoring a CPU utilization of the portable device;

monitoring a data store communicating with the portable device; and

monitoring a priority rank.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the monitoring the network step comprises at least one of the steps of:

monitoring a link between the portable device and the server; and

monitoring an IP address of the server.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the monitoring the power state step comprises at least one of the steps of:

monitoring an A/C power status of the portable device; and

monitoring a battery power status of the portable device.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the monitoring the CPU utilization step comprises the step of comparing an actual CPU utilization to a preset CPU threshold.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the monitoring the data store step further comprises comparing an actual data store capacity to a preset data store capacity threshold.

10. A method of protecting data on a mobile computing device using a storage network, the method comprising:

deploying to the mobile computing device, a synchronization agent;

associating a synchronization policy with the synchronization agent;

monitoring, on the mobile computing device, at least one threshold event;

determining that the at least one threshold event has occurred;

transmitting a request to initiate a data synchronization event; and

responding, to the request by synchronizing the mobile computing device with the storage network.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising periodically updating the synchronization policy.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the updating of the synchronization policy is performed when a data synchronization event occurs.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the updating of the synchronization policy is performed based on network administrator input.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the updating of the synchronization policy is performed based on input from a user of the mobile computing device.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the updating of the synchronization policy is performed substantially automatically based on changing conditions in the storage network or mobile computing device.