Patents by Inventor Lisa A. Shepard
Lisa A. Shepard has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10956277Abstract: Backup schedule optimization is provided. Data describing a first backup schedule for a first backup server is identified. Performance metric data and workload data for a first backup server and a second backup server is collected. If a count of backup windows represented by workload data for the first backup server exceeds a data collection threshold, an updated backup schedule that offloads a pending job from the first backup server to the second backup server can be generated. The updated backup schedule is generated if a maximum average I/O threshold for the first backup server was exceeded while a minimum average I/O threshold for the second backup server was deceeded. The maximum and minimum average I/O thresholds are calculated based on respective target average I/O rates for the first and second backup servers, the target average I/O rates derived from respective perform metric data.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marci D. Formato, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Steven M. Reps, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Patent number: 10831888Abstract: A method for detecting ransomware. A set of control files in a set of locations in a file system is checked, by a computer system, in response to an event, wherein the set of control files has a set of extensions targeted by the ransomware. In response to detecting a change in any of the set of control files, a file copying process for the file system is disabled by the computer system.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marci D. Formato, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Andrew S. Kronstadt, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Patent number: 10761945Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for dynamically directing data in a deduplication backup system. A computer system identifies a data type for the data. The computer system determines whether the data is suitable for deduplication in the deduplication backup system based on the data type identified for the data and a policy. The computer system directs the data to a deduplication storage pool responsive to the data having the data type that is suitable for deduplication, reducing storage usage issues for backing up the data in the computer system.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Daniela Kern Mainieri Trevisan, Kurt Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Patent number: 10592355Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, program products, and systems for determining an amount of usable storage in a backup environment. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to receive system information pertaining to a storage backup environment. Embodiments of the present invention can calculate a compression ratio of the storage on a backup server and a backup ratio between an amount of data on a client computer system and an amount of data on the backup server and calculate an average amount of storage consumed on the backup server. Embodiments of the present invention can determine an existing backup capacity for the storage backup environment by identifying an amount representing the actual capacity of data capable of being stored on the backup server and reducing the amount representing the actual capacity according to the calculated average amount of storage consumed on the backup server.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marci D. Formato, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Steven M. Reps, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Publication number: 20190384675Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for dynamically directing data in a deduplication backup system. A computer system identifies a data type for the data. The computer system determines whether the data is suitable for deduplication in the deduplication backup system based on the data type identified for the data and a policy. The computer system directs the data to a deduplication storage pool responsive to the data having the data type that is suitable for deduplication, reducing storage usage issues for backing up the data in the computer system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Daniela Kern Mainieri Trevisan, Kurt Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Publication number: 20190310920Abstract: Pre-fetching and staging restore data is provided. A set of data corresponding to a client device is collected from each respective data source in a plurality of data sources. A score is determined for each set of data collected. A probability of receiving a request to restore backup data on the client device is predicted based on analysis of the set of data from each respective data source and the score for each set of data. It is determined whether the predicted probability of receiving a request to restore the backup data on the client device is greater than a threshold. In response to determining that the predicted probability of receiving a request to restore the backup data on the client device is greater than the threshold, the backup data of the client device is preemptively moved to a fastest data storage tier in a multi-tiered backup data storage system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2018Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Kurt Rybczyk, Christopher C. Bode, Lisa A. Shepard, Matthew Lavigne
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Publication number: 20190228147Abstract: A method for detecting ransomware. A set of control files in a set of locations in a file system is checked, by a computer system, in response to an event, wherein the set of control files has a set of extensions targeted by the ransomware. In response to detecting a change in any of the set of control files, a file copying process for the file system is disabled by the computer system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2018Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Marci D. Formato, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Andrew S. Kronstadt, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Patent number: 10331524Abstract: Backup schedule optimization is provided. Backup environment data is identified. Data describing a first backup schedule is identified. Performance metric data that includes data for a data storage array of computer data storage device(s) of a backup server is collected. Data describing backup log(s) that associated with jobs backed up to the data storage array and respectively executed during backup window(s) is received. A target average I/O rate is determined based on the performance metric data of the data storage array. A second backup schedule is generated based on the target average I/O rate, average I/O rate(s) of the data storage array, the backup environment data, and the data describing one or more backup logs. A start time of a job is scheduled in the second backup schedule for a different time in a backup window compared to a start time of the job in the first backup schedule.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marci D. Formato, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Steven M. Reps, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Patent number: 10268401Abstract: A method, computer system and computer program product for managing tapes storing a backup for a node. The method identifies the node for which a current set of tapes is present. The method determines whether the current set of tapes exceeds a threshold for undesired fragmentation for the node and moves data in the current set of tapes to a new set of tapes when a physical tape count exceeds the threshold for undesired fragmentation, wherein the data is more contiguous in the new set of tapes than the current set of tapes.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Steven M. Reps, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Patent number: 10248513Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, program products, and systems for determining an amount of usable storage in a backup environment. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to receive system information pertaining to a storage backup environment. Embodiments of the present invention can calculate a compression ratio of the storage on a backup server and a backup ratio between an amount of data on a client computer system and an amount of data on the backup server and calculate an average amount of storage consumed on the backup server. Embodiments of the present invention can determine an existing backup capacity for the storage backup environment by identifying an amount representing the actual capacity of data capable of being stored on the backup server and reducing the amount representing the actual capacity according to the calculated average amount of storage consumed on the backup server.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marci D. Formato, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Steven M. Reps, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Publication number: 20190095288Abstract: Backup schedule optimization is provided. Data describing a first backup schedule for a first backup server is identified. Performance metric data and workload data for a first backup server and a second backup server is collected. If a count of backup windows represented by workload data for the first backup server exceeds a data collection threshold, an updated backup schedule that offloads a pending job from the first backup server to the second backup server can be generated. The updated backup schedule is generated if a maximum average I/O threshold for the first backup server was exceeded while a minimum average I/O threshold for the second backup server was deceeded. The maximum and minimum average I/O thresholds are calculated based on respective target average I/O rates for the first and second backup servers, the target average I/O rates derived from respective perform metric data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Marci D. Formato, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Steven M. Reps, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Publication number: 20190079833Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, program products, and systems for determining an amount of usable storage in a backup environment. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to receive system information pertaining to a storage backup environment. Embodiments of the present invention can calculate a compression ratio of the storage on a backup server and a backup ratio between an amount of data on a client computer system and an amount of data on the backup server and calculate an average amount of storage consumed on the backup server. Embodiments of the present invention can determine an existing backup capacity for the storage backup environment by identifying an amount representing the actual capacity of data capable of being stored on the backup server and reducing the amount representing the actual capacity according to the calculated average amount of storage consumed on the backup server.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Marci D. Formato, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Steven M. Reps, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Publication number: 20180217767Abstract: A method, computer system and computer program product for managing tapes storing a backup for a node. The method identifies the node for which a current set of tapes is present. The method determines whether the current set of tapes exceeds a threshold for undesired fragmentation for the node and moves data in the current set of tapes to a new set of tapes when a physical tape count exceeds the threshold for undesired fragmentation, wherein the data is more contiguous in the new set of tapes than the current set of tapes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Steven M. Reps, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Publication number: 20170364415Abstract: Backup schedule optimization is provided. Backup environment data is identified. Data describing a first backup schedule is identified. Performance metric data that includes data for a data storage array of computer data storage device(s) of a backup server is collected. Data describing backup log(s) that associated with jobs backed up to the data storage array and respectively executed during backup window(s) is received. A target average I/O rate is determined based on the performance metric data of the data storage array. A second backup schedule is generated based on the target average I/O rate, average I/O rate(s) of the data storage array, the backup environment data, and the data describing one or more backup logs. A start time of a job is scheduled in the second backup schedule for a different time in a backup window compared to a start time of the job in the first backup schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2016Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Marci D. Formato, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Steven M. Reps, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard
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Publication number: 20170270010Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, program products, and systems for determining an amount of usable storage in a backup environment. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to receive system information pertaining to a storage backup environment. Embodiments of the present invention can calculate a compression ratio of the storage on a backup server and a backup ratio between an amount of data on a client computer system and an amount of data on the backup server and calculate an average amount of storage consumed on the backup server. Embodiments of the present invention can determine an existing backup capacity for the storage backup environment by identifying an amount representing the actual capacity of data capable of being stored on the backup server and reducing the amount representing the actual capacity according to the calculated average amount of storage consumed on the backup server.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Marci D. Formato, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Steven M. Reps, Kurt A. Rybczyk, Lisa A. Shepard