Abstract: Systems and methods for determining retention periods or policies for backups are disclosed. A rule book stores relationships between rules and recommended retention periods. Data related to a backup is collected and organized. A query is generated from the organized data and used to identify a rule from the rule book. The retention period corresponding to the identified rule in the rule book is then applied to the corresponding backup.

Abstract: A backup agent for generating backups includes a persistent storage and a backup manager. The persistent storage stores backup/restoration policies. The backup manager obtains production host computing resource characteristics associated with production hosts; performs a computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts; performs an availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups; coordinates generating the backups using the application-level computing resource distribution and the backup/restoration policies to obtain the backups; and stores the obtained backups in backup storage.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining retention periods or policies for backups are disclosed. A rule book stores relationships between rules and recommended retention periods. Data related to a backup is collected and organized. A query is generated from the organized data and used to identify a rule from the rule book. The retention period corresponding to the identified rule in the rule book is then applied to the corresponding backup.

Abstract: A backup agent for generating backups includes a persistent storage and a backup manager. The persistent storage stores backup/restoration policies. The backup manager obtains production host computing resource characteristics associated with production hosts; performs a computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts; performs an availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups; coordinates generating the backups using the application-level computing resource distribution and the backup/restoration policies to obtain the backups; and stores the obtained backups in backup storage.

Abstract: A decoupled backup solution for distributed databases across a failover cluster. Specifically, a method and system disclosed herein improve upon a limitation of existing backup mechanisms involving distributed databases across a failover cluster. The limitation entails restraining backup agents, responsible for executing database backup processes across the failover cluster, from immediately initiating these aforementioned processes upon receipt of instructions. Rather, due to this limitation, these backup agents must wait until all backup agents, across the failover cluster, receive their respective instructions before being permitted to initiate the creation of backup copies of their relative distributed database. Subsequently, the limitation imposes an initiation delay on the backup processes, which the disclosed method and system omit, thereby granting any particular backup agent the capability to immediately (i.e., without delay) initiate those backup processes.