A Backup and Disaster Recovery Product

Presentation By
Prabhas Gupte

M.Sc. (Computer Science) Semester IV

Industrial Training Project Presentation

Performed at
Centillion Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
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“We think, therefore, we can…”

“Disaster recovery at the speed
of the Internet”

• Software product and services company

• Main area of development is backup and
disaster recovery solution
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 Why GlobStore ?
• Up-to-date backup is business necessity
• Serious challenges with offline backup
– Physical movement of tapes and keeping their
records
– Need to restore entire backup onto a hard
disk before it can be used
– Tapes must be available at the site of loading

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 GlobStore meant for…
• Storage Capacity • Data Consolidation
• Disaster recovery • Data Aggregation
• Scalability • Replication
• Availability • Snapshots
• Security • Backups
• Manageability • Access over Internet
• Retrieval • Access over Phone
Line

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 GlobStore has primarily 4
components
• Object selection component
• Schedule specification module
• Snapshot creation and integration
• Point-in-time restoration

 Connectivity achieved by using iSCSI protocol.

 Snapshot creation achieved by using Rsync protocol.

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 GlobStore provides
• logs of every action and its result
• reports of successful and failed backups
• automatic execution of local and remote schedules
• complete history of snapshots
• every incremental change between two successive
backups
• full backup at scheduled times
• Easy to use management interface
• Mapped object specification functionality

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 Deployment Scenario

Dialup phone network

iSCSI

GlobStor
e

iSCSI
Local backup
GlobStor
e
Remote backup

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 Industrial Training Schedule
Activity Duration

Analysis and January 2007 to February 2007

Design
Development February 2007 to April 2007

Testing April 2007 to May 2007

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 User

GUI

Schedule Restore
Generation Wizard
My work area

Daemon

My work area Administrator

TAPI Rsync

Webmin Interface

Hardware Component
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 My contribution to project
• GUI
– Backup scheduling
– Schedule deletion
– Schedule listing
– Backup report
generation
– Immediate backup
specification
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• Webmin Interface
– Listing iSCSI targets
and LUNs
– Adding new targets
and LUNs
– Target masking
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Backup Schedule Specification
• Input: File of specified
objects
• Outputs:
– File of backup
specifications
– Duplicate copy of
backup specifications
(used with restoration
module)

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Backup Schedule Deletion
• Input: File of backup
specifications
• Output: Updated file
of backup
specifications

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Backup Schedule Listing
• Input: File of backup
specifications
• Output: None

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 Backup Report Generation
• Input: Backup log file written by daemon
• Output: None
• Reports the status of each scheduled and
immediate backup, whether successful or
not.
• If failed, the reason of failure is reported.

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Immediate Backup Specification
• Input: File of specified
objects
• Outputs:
– File of immediate
backup event
– Duplicate file of
schedule
specifications (to be
used with restoration
module)

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Immediate Backup Specification
• Performed
immediately if
daemon is free
• If daemon performing
any scheduled
backup, executed as
soon as daemon
finishes with in-hand
schedule.

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 Webmin Interface
• Web-based remote system administration
for Unix/Linux
• Consists of simple web server, and a
number of Perl-CGI programs which
directly update system files like
/etc/inetd.conf or /etc/passwd
• Web server and all CGI programs are
written in Perl version 5, and use only
standard Perl modules.
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 Webmin Interface with GlobStore
• Installed on the hardware component
• Used for system configurations like
– User account management
– Network management
• And for product configurations like
– iSCSI target management
– LUN management

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Listing iSCSI targets and LUNs
• Reading the
configuration file
• Parsing the file using
regular expressions
• Representing
configurations in user-
friendly format

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Adding new targets and LUNs
• Accepting necessary
details from user
• Validating user inputs
• Making proper entries
in configuration file
• Restarting the iSCSI
target service

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 What I Learnt?
How to design a system
Documentation format
How to productize the system
CVS
Joomla
Bugzilla

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Thank You!