Method and computation node for processing application data

• US 9,436,557 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2015
• Issued: 09/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Qing
• Primary Examiner(s): Anya, Charles E
• Application Number:
  US14/794,253
• Publication Number:
  US 20150309878A1
• Time in Patent Office: 426 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1448 Management of the data involved in backup or backup restore
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1458 Management of the backup or restore process
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/80 Database-specific techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/546 Message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and a computation node for processing application data. The method includes: starting, by an operating system, a service process; establishing, by the operating system, a socket connection between the service process and backup software, where the service process has a root operation right, and the service process and the backup software have the same user identifier; sending, by the backup software through the socket, a processing request for application data; receiving, by the service process through the socket, the processing request for application data, where the processing request is sent by the backup software, sending the processing request for application data to corresponding application software, receiving application data returned by the corresponding application software, and sending the returned application data to the backup software through the socket.

Claims

1. A method for processing application data, applied to a single computation node, comprising:

creating, by an operating system in the single computation node, in the single computation node a service process with a root operation right and a user identifier (uid), wherein the uid is set as exactly the same as the uid of a backup software in the single computation node;

establishing, by the operating system, a socket connection between a service process and the backup software;

receiving, by the service process through the socket connection, a processing request for application data from the backup software;

sending, by the service process, the processing request for application data to a corresponding application software in the single computation node;

receiving, by the service process, application data returned by the corresponding application software, wherein the application data comprises application data returned in response to the processing request; and

sending, by the service process through the socket connection, the returned application data to the backup software.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sending, by the service process, the processing request for application data to a corresponding application software in the single computation node specifically comprises:

performing, by the service process, signature verification on the processing request; and

if the signature verification is passed, sending, by the service process, the processing request for application data to the corresponding application software in the single computation node.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the service process receiving the, application data returned by the corresponding application software, the application data comprises application data returned in response to the processing request, comprises:

performing, by the corresponding application software, signature verification on the processing request; and

if the signature verification is passed, returning, by the corresponding application software, application data in response to the processing request.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the processing request is a catalogue reading request and the application data returned is catalogue information that is read ;

or the processing request is a file reading request and the application data returned is file content that is read.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the processing request is a catalogue writing request and the application data returned is result corresponding to the catalogue writing request;

or the processing request is a file writing request and the application data returned is result corresponding to the file writing request.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving, by the service process through the socket connection, a processing request for application data from the backup software, comprises:

receiving, by the service process through the socket connection, a length of the processing request for application data from the backup software; and

receiving, by the service process through the socket connection, specific content corresponding to the length of the processing request for application data from the backup software.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sending, by the service process through the socket connection, the returned application data to the backup software, comprises:

sending, by the service process through the socket connection, a length of the returned application data to the backup software; and

sending, by the service process through the socket connection, specific content of the returned application data to the backup software.

8. A computation node, comprising a processor coupled to a memory, wherein

an operating system in the computation node creates in the computation node a service process with a root operation right and a user identifier (uid), wherein the uid is set as exactly the same as the uid of a backup software in the computation node;

and establishes a socket connection between the service process and the backup software;

the backup software sends the service process a processing request for application data through the socket connection;

wherein the service process receives through the socket connection the processing request for application data sent from the backup software;

sends the processing request for application data to a corresponding application software in the computation node;

receives application data returned in response to the processing request; and

sends the returned application data to the backup software through the socket connection.

9. The computation node according to claim 8, wherein the service process performs signature verification on the processing request;

and

sends the processing request for application data to the corresponding application software in the computation node if the signature verification is passed.

10. The computation node according to claim 8, wherein the processing request is a catalogue reading request and the application data returned is catalogue information that is read;

or the processing request is a file reading request and the application data returned is file content that is read.

11. The computation node according to claim 8, wherein the processing request is a catalogue writing request and the application data returned is result corresponding to the catalogue writing request;

or the processing request is a file writing request and the application data returned is result corresponding to the file writing request.

12. The computation node according to claim 8, wherein:

the computation node is configured to perform the following;

instruct the backup software to send, through the socket connection, a length of the processing request for application data to the corresponding application software; and

instruct the service process to send, through the socket connection, specific content corresponding to the length of the processing request for application data to the corresponding application software.

13. The computation node according to claim 8, wherein the computation node is configured to instruct the service process to:

send, through the socket connection, a length of the returned application data to the backup software; and

send, through the socket connection, specific content of the returned application data to the backup software.