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Backup management of software environments in a distributed network environment

US9652480B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Thomas H. Gnech · Eppelheim, DE
Steffen Koenig · Heidelberg, DE
Oliver Petrik · Stuttgart, DE
Petra Wagner · Leibnitz, AT

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 4, 2013
Grant date	May 16, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 1, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2201/80
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Backup management of software environments in a distributed network environment includes: Creating a platform specific software environment according to a predefined software environment definition by a user in the network environment; automatically creating a generalized backup of the software environment by extracting platform independent data contents and platform specific transformation rules; automatically calculating enhanced meta data describing the generalized backup; assigning the enhanced metadata with the predefined software environment definition; registering the generalized backup with the enhanced metadata in a backup storage accessible by a plurality of distributed users connected via said network environment, creating a software environment according to a predefined software environment definition by automatically checking the backup storage for an available generalized backup by means of the predefined software environment definition.

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