Archive migration system

• US 9,881,038 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2015
• Issued: 01/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Devasthali, Snehal S., Gadre, Swanand S., Gujarathi, Nilesh R., Padmanabhan, Girish, Patil, Rajesh V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ye, Zi
• Application Number:
  US14/690,530
• Publication Number:
  US 20160308782A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,016 Days
• Field of Search: 709226, 709217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/214 Database migration support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/219 Managing data history or versioning querying versioned data G06F16/2474; querying temporal data G06F16/2477
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0605 by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0647 Migration mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

A computer detects that a threshold value associated with a storage capacity of a first storage account has been exceeded. The computer determines one or more other storage accounts to migrate a determined amount of data contained in the first storage account, wherein the determined one or more storage accounts are linked to the first storage account. The computer migrates the determined amount of data from the first storage account to the determined one or more other storage accounts.

Claims

1. A computer program product for archiving data, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable storage devices and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable storage devices, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to detect that a threshold value associated with a storage capacity of a first data archive has been exceeded, wherein the first data archive is owned by a first user;

program instructions to determine a second data archive of one or more other data archives for migration of a portion of data contained in the first data archive, wherein the one or more other data archives are linked to the first data archive based on the content of the first data archive, and wherein the second data archive is owned by a second user;

program instructions to determine the portion of data in the first data archive to be migrated to the second data archive based on a relationship of the portion of the data to the second user; and

program instructions to migrate the portion of data from the first data archive to the second data archive.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising:

program instructions to send a request to the determined data archive requesting permission to migrate at least a portion of the portion of data.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the program instructions to determine the second data archive to migrate a portion of data further comprises:

program instructions to determine a third data archive to migrate the portion of data; and

program instructions to migrate a first portion of the portion of data to the second data archive and migrating a second portion of the portion of data to the third data archive.

4. The computer program product of claim 3, further comprising program instructions to determine the first portion of the portion of data contains information that is associated with an owner of the second data archive and the second portion of the portion of data contains information that is associated with an owner of the third data archive.

5. The computer program product of claim 3, further comprising program instructions to transmit a list to an owner associated with the first data archive, wherein the list includes information detailing that the first portion of the portion of data has been migrated to the second data archive and the second portion of the portion of data has been migrated to the third data archive.

6. A computer system for determining one or more accounts for the migration of data, the computer system comprising:

one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to detect that a threshold value associated with a storage capacity of a first data archive has been exceeded, wherein the first data archive is owned by a first user;

program instructions to determine a second data archive of one or more other data archives for migration of a portion of data contained in the first data archive, wherein the one or more other data archives are linked to the first data archive based on the content of the first data archive, and wherein the second data archive is owned by a second user;

program instructions to determine the portion of data in the first data archive to be migrated to the second data archive based on a relationship of the portion of the data to the second user; and

program instructions to migrate the portion of data from the first data archive to the second data archive.

7. The computer system of claim 6, further comprising:

program instructions to send a request to the determined data archive requesting permission to migrate at least a portion of the portion of data.

8. The computer system of claim 6, wherein the program instructions to determine the second data archive to migrate a portion of data further comprises:

program instructions to determine a third data archive to migrate the portion of data; and

program instructions to migrate a first portion of the portion of data to the second data archive and migrating a second portion of the portion of data to the third data archive.

9. The computer system of claim 8, further comprising program instructions to determine the first portion of the portion of data contains information that is associated with an owner of the second data archive and the second portion of the portion of data contains information that is associated with an owner of the third data archive.