METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT SELECTIVE BACKUP STRATEGY IN AN ENTERPRISE

摘要

The present disclosure provides systems and methods to optimize data backup in a distributed enterprise system by firstly generating a set of unique files from all the files available in the enterprise. A backup set comprising files to be backed up are then generated from the set of unique files and backup is scheduled in the order in which the files to be backed up are identified. Unique files are generated based on file sharing patterns and communications among users that enable generating a social network graph from which one or more communities can be detected and deduplication can be performed on the files hosted by client systems in these communities thereby conserving resources.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
generating a set of unique files corresponding to a set of client systems in a distributed enterprise system hosting the unique files, wherein the set of unique files is an ordered set based on an ordered function; generating a backup set comprising files to be backed up by iteratively performing:
identifying, at least one client system from the set of client systems, having maximum number of files outputted by the ordered function to generate an identified client system for backup;adding the identified client system and the unique files thereof to the backup set; andre-defining the set of unique files and the set of client systems by eliminating the identified client system and the unique files thereof until all the unique files are moved to the backup set; and scheduling a selective backup based on an order in which the files to be backed up are added to the backup set.