Redundancy system having synchronization function and synchronization method for redundancy system

• US 7,770,062 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2008
• Issued: 08/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Koike, Tomotake
• Primary Examiner(s): Iqbal; Nadeem
• Application Number:
  US12/323,760
• Publication Number:
  US 20090089613A1
• Time in Patent Office: 615 Days
• Field of Search: 714 6- 13, 714/15, 714/16, 714/18, 714/20, 714/21, 714/47, 714/48
• US Class Current: 714/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2038 with a single idle spare processing component
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2097 maintaining the standby controller/processing unit updated initialisation or re-synchronisation thereof G06F11/1658 and subgroups

Abstract

A redundancy system that can perform synchronization even if a failure occurs to an application. According to the redundancy system of the present invention, a synchronization data memory area, a management bit map table having a flag created for each segment of the synchronization data memory area, and a management memory area for storing the starting address of the segment are set in each device. In the service application process, a service is performed using one or more segments, a flag corresponding to the segment is set, and synchronization information is written to the management memory each time the segment is written or overwritten. In the read process, each flag in the management bit map table is checked, and if a flag being set exists, the synchronization data is read from the segment corresponding to the synchronization information stored in the management memory, and the flag is reset.

Claims

1. A redundancy system in which when service performing data provided in an ACT server is changed, the changed data is transmitted to a SBY server, wherein said ACT server comprises:

synchronization data management means, disposed in a shared memory in said ACT server, for managing of synchronization data with respect to each of segments of a synchronization data memory;

synchronization request information setting means for, on the occurrence of synchronization data change, setting synchronization request data for a changed one of said segments corresponding to said synchronization data change to said synchronization management means; and

transmitting means for transmitting said changed one of said segments to be synchronized to said SBY server on the basis of said synchronization request information set to said synchronization data management means;

wherein said synchronization data management means includes

a synchronization memory area for storing said synchronization data with respect to each of said segments,

a synchronization request management section for managing the presence or absence of the synchronization request for said each of segments in the synchronization memory area,

a synchronization request information holding section for holding said synchronization request information set by said synchronization request information setting means; and

wherein said transmitting means monitors at a given timing said synchronization request information holding section, and reads and then transmits said segments in said synchronization memory area on the basis of the synchronization request information held in said holding section.

2. A redundancy system in which when service performing data provided in an ACT server is changed, the changed data is transmitted to a SBY server, wherein said ACT server comprises:

synchronization data management means, disposed in a shared memory in said ACT server, for managing of synchronization data with respect to each of segments of a synchronization data memory;

synchronization request information setting means for, on the occurrence of synchronization data change;

setting synchronization request data for a changed one of said segments corresponding to said synchronization data change to said synchronization management means; and

transmitting means for transmitting said changed one of said segments to be synchronized to said SBY server on the basis of said synchronization request information set to said synchronization data management means;

wherein said synchronization data management means includes

a synchronization memory area for storing said synchronization data with respect to each of said segments,

a synchronization request management section for managing the presence or absence of the synchronization request for said each of segments in the synchronization memory area, and

a synchronization request information holding section for holding said synchronization request information set by said synchronization request information setting means; and

wherein said synchronization request management section and said synchronization request information holding section reject the setting of said synchronization request information for said segments, which are checked by said transmitting means, after the starting up of said transmitting means.