Remote online backup system and method based on stager fragmented transmission

• US 8,516,207 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2010
• Issued: 08/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bizconline Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Bizconline Ltd.
• Inventors: Shum, Ping, Li, Tak Ho Alex
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M
• Application Number:
  US12/683,855
• Publication Number:
  US 20110055503A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,321 Days
• Field of Search: 711/162
• US Class Current: 711/162
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2058 using more than 2 mirrored copies
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2066 Optimisation of the communication load
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2074 Asynchronous techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0856 by backing up or archiving configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/00 Systems for electrical power generation, transmission, distribution or end-user application management characterised by the use of communication or information technologies, or communication or information technology specific aspects supporting them

Abstract

The present invention provides a remote online backup method based on stager fragmented transmission, comprising: defining a journal storage system as a journal relay system, i.e., a Journal Stager; dividing the Journal Stager into a Local Journal Stager and a Remote Journal Stager to optimize backup transmission performance of the whole online backup system; setting between the Local Journal Stager and the Remote Journal Stager a transmitter, by which a journal is transmitted from one stager to another stager; applying the journal to a backup storage device through a Journal Replayer at a backup destination site.

Claims

1. A remote online backup method based on stager fragmented transmission, comprising:

defining a journal storage system as a journal relay system, i.e., a Journal Stager;

dividing the Journal Stager into a Local Journal Stager and a Remote Journal Stager to optimize backup transmission performance of the whole online backup system;

setting between the Local Journal Stager and the Remote Journal Stager a transmitter, by which a journal is transmitted from one stager to another stager;

applying the journal to a backup storage device through a Journal Replayer at a backup destination site;

the Local Journal Stager comprises a journal receiving and transmitting device belonging to a same local high speed network to a client site needing online backup, and the Remote Journal Stager comprises a journal receiving and transmitting device located in a network environment outside client Local Production sites;

wherein the Journal Stager has an identifying function for destination site flags in the journal to determine whether journal data has arrived at destination, or the journal data needs to be further retransmitted, so that the Journal Stager has differences in the Local Journal Stager and the Remote Journal Stager;

when data needs to be backup to remote sites with limited network condition, the data is firstly transmitted through the Local Journal Stager.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the Journal Stager comprises all systems accessible by a client server through network, which comprise a storage device for storing journals and processing program.

3. The method according to claim 1, when the destination site flag in the received journal does not coincide with the present site flag, the journal is transmitted to the next Remote Journal Stager by the transmitter, until the journal is sent to the Remote Journal Stager of a site having the flag coinciding with the destination site flag in the journal.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the Journal Stager has a data authentication and encryption function.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the Journal Stager also has a duplicate data deletion processing function.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter transmits the journal between the Local Journal Stager and the Remote Journal Stager in accordance with a predefined time policy.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the transmitter is also in charge of processing for transmission process of the journal between the Local Journal Stager and the Remote Journal Stager, which comprises data compression, data encryption, and duplicate data deletion.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the Journal Stager and the Journal Replayer can be combined to construct a Disaster Recovery Site for storing journal data chronically.

9. A method for performing remote online backup by Disaster Recovery Sub Sites and a Disaster Recovery Main Site, comprising:

a. a plurality of clients transmitting journals to respective corresponding Local Journal Stagers respectively;

b. sending the journals to directly connected Remote Journal Stagers by transmitters;

c. the Remote Journal Stagers determining whether the present site coincides with a flag of a destination Disaster Recovery Main Site in a received journal;

d. determining whether the present site is a Disaster Recovery Sub Site if not coinciding;

sending the journal to a Journal Replayer of the present Disaster Recovery Sub Site if the present site is the Disaster Recovery Sub Site and returning to step b, and directly returning to step b if the present site is not the Disaster Recovery Sub Site;

e. performing processing for sending the journal to a Journal Replayer of the Disaster Recovery Main Site if coinciding;

each of the Local Journal Stagers comprises a journal receiving and transmitting device belonging to a same local high speed network to a client site needing online backup, and each of the Remote Journal Stagers comprises a journal receiving and transmitting device located in a network environment outside client Local Production sites.

10. A remote online backup system based on stager fragmented transmission, comprising:

one or more clients for writing data into their local storage and transmitting the data to Local Journal Stagers in manner of journal;

the Local Journal Stagers for reserving the journals from the clients and pushing the journals to the transmitters;

the transmitters for transmitting the journals from the Local Journal Stagers to Remote Journal Stagers;

the Remote Journal Stagers for receiving the journals and transmitting the journals to Journal Replacers or other Remote Journal Stagers; and

the Journal Replayer for applying the journals to device storage devices;

the Local Journal Stager comprises a journal receiving and transmitting device belonging to a same local high speed network to a client site needing online backup, and the Remote Journal Stager comprises a journal receiving and transmitting device located in a network environment outside client Local Production sites;

wherein the Journal Stager has an identifying function for destination site flags in the journal to determine whether journal data has arrived at destination, or the journal data need to be further retransmitted, so that the Journal Stager has differences in the Local Journal Stager and the Remote Journal Stager;

when data need to be backup to remote sites with limited network condition, the data is firstly transmitted through the Local Journal Stager.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the Journal Stager comprises all systems accessible by a client server through network, which comprise a storage device for storing journals and processing program.

12. The system according to claim 10, when the Remote Journal Stager determines that the destination site flag in the received journal does not coincide with the present site flag, the Remote Journal Stager transmits the journal to the next Remote Journal Stager by the transmitter, until the journal is sent to the Remote Journal Stager of a site having the flag coinciding with the destination site flag in the journal.

13. The system according to claim 10, wherein the Local Journal Stager and the Remote Journal Stager have a data authentication and encryption function.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the Local Journal Stager and the Remote Journal Stager also have a duplicate data deletion processing function.

15. The system according to claim 10, wherein the transmitter transmits the journal between the Local Journal Stager and the Remote Journal Stager in accordance with a predefined time policy.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the transmitter is also in charge of processing for transmission process of the journal between the Local Journal Stager and the Remote Journal Stager, which comprises data compression, data encryption, and duplicate data deletion.

17. The system according to claim 10, wherein the Remote Journal Stager and the Journal Replayer can be combined to construct a Disaster Recovery Site for storing journal data chronically.

18. A system for performing remote online backup by Disaster Recovery Sub Sites and a Disaster Recovery Main Site, comprising:

a plurality of clients for transmitting journals to respective corresponding Local Journal Stagers respectively;

a plurality of Local Journal Stagers for sending the journals to Remote Journal Stagers directly connected with the Local Journal Stagers through transmitters;

a plurality of transmitters for transmitting the journals from the Local Journal Stagers to the Remote Journal Stagers;

a plurality of Remote Journal Stagers for receiving the journals from the transmitters and sending the journals to the Disaster Recovery Sub Sites or the Disaster Recovery Main Site connected to the plurality of Remote Journal Stagers;

the plurality of Disaster Recovery Sub Sites for replaying the journals to backup storage devices and sending the journals to the Remote Journal Stagers connected to the Disaster Recovery Main Site simultaneously; and

the Disaster Recovery Main Site for receiving the journals from the Remote Journal Stagers and replaying and storing the journals to a backup storage device;

each of the Local Journal Stagers comprises a journal receiving and transmitting device belonging to a same local high speed network to a client site needing online backup, and each of the Remote Journal Stagers comprises a journal receiving and transmitting device located in a network environment outside client Local Production sites.