Structure-independent disaster recovery:Concept,architecture and implementations

作     者：ZHENG WeiMin FANG BinXing 

作者机构：Department of Computer Science and Technology Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing 100876 China 

出 版 物：《Science in China(Series F)》 (中国科学（F辑英文版）)

年 卷 期：2009年第52卷第5期

页      面：813-823页

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学科分类：0839[工学-网络空间安全] 08[工学] 081201[工学-计算机系统结构] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB311100) 

主　　题：disaster recovery parallel virtualization 

摘      要：Disaster recovery （DR） techniques ensure the data safety and service continuity under different natural and human-made disasters by constructing a high reliable storage system. Traditional disaster recovery methods are structure-dependent. It is hard to share the DR resources between different DR systems, which made it expensive. We present a structure-independent disaster recovery theory and its implementation methods in this paper. By backup the whole system but not just the data, the goal of device and application-independent disaster recovery has been achieved. We further present a parallel recovery model and an on demand data retrieval method based on the theory. Some implementation details of prototype recovery system are also discussed. With the methods independent from specific devices or applications, the cost of disaster recovery infrastructure can be essentially reduced by resource sharing. Experiments show that the recovery time has also been greatly shortened with little service degradation.