TY - GEN
T1 - A service-oriented approach to storage backup
AU - Cheng, Hao
AU - Ho, Yao H.
AU - Hua, Kien A.
AU - Liu, Danzhou
AU - Xie, Fei
AU - Tsaur, Ynn Pyng
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Various organizations face an explosive growth of data that must be protected and backed up. This challenge is made more difficult by the movement from stand-alone server backup to backup over the local area network (LAN) and by the need to automatically manage multiple backup servers efficiently for concurrent backup jobs. In this paper, we present a novel software approach to backup service, where application servers provide their unused resources to participate in a virtual backup environment. We implement a prototype with the following desirable features: single-instance storage to save storage and communication costs, data replication to enhance data availability, data redirection to avoid job resubmission, and intelligent scheduling to achieve workload balance. The experimental study shows that our approach is promising.
AB - Various organizations face an explosive growth of data that must be protected and backed up. This challenge is made more difficult by the movement from stand-alone server backup to backup over the local area network (LAN) and by the need to automatically manage multiple backup servers efficiently for concurrent backup jobs. In this paper, we present a novel software approach to backup service, where application servers provide their unused resources to participate in a virtual backup environment. We implement a prototype with the following desirable features: single-instance storage to save storage and communication costs, data replication to enhance data availability, data redirection to avoid job resubmission, and intelligent scheduling to achieve workload balance. The experimental study shows that our approach is promising.
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U2 - 10.1109/SCC.2008.132
DO - 10.1109/SCC.2008.132
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51749115962
SN - 9780769532837
T3 - Proceedings - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2008
SP - 413
EP - 421
BT - Proceedings - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2008
T2 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2008
Y2 - 7 July 2008 through 11 July 2008
ER -