SBIR Phase I: FileSafe: Policy-Driven Storage Virtualization for Online Data Backup and Recovery

该小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目旨在通过利用小型企业计算机上的可用磁盘容量，为小型企业提供无磁带和低开销的在线数据存储备份和恢复解决方案。中小型企业(SMB)在存储备份和虚拟化领域的需求尚未得到满足，因为他们负担不起专门的IT员工，通常没有内部IT专业知识，并且无法购买昂贵的系统，例如大型企业使用的存储区域网络。与密歇根大学的研究人员从Pastiche项目、对等备份方法和ISMene项目(策略管理系统)合作，为SMB提供了一个独特的机会，可以为SMB提供强大且廉价的数据备份解决方案。研究挑战包括：o提供可管理性：由于组织中不同类型的机器在连接性、预期可靠性和可用容量方面存在差异，P2P备份架构带来了可管理性挑战。O提供在线可用性：无磁带解决方案应允许用户了解其数据是否已备份，并且无需管理支持即可访问其备份的数据。O根据文件中内容的敏感性，允许在安全性和可用性之间进行权衡。O随着存储需求的变化进行备份虚拟化。负面影响：在商业化后，该研究将有助于为中小型企业提供低成本、功能丰富且易于管理的分布式备份系统。其目标是通过在分布式备份环境中为P2P技术提供更好的可管理性来降低风险，通过提供对备份数据的在线访问来提供更多功能，并针对尚未被大型存储公司渗透且通常没有IT员工进行手动备份或复杂系统管理的细分市场(SMB)。关键词：备份、对等应用程序、网络存储关键词：备份、对等应用程序、网络存储

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to provide a tapeless and low-overhead online data storage backup and recovery solution to small businesses by utilizing available disk capacities on their machines. Small or mid-sized businesses (SMBs) have unmet needs in the storage backup and virtualization area because they can not afford to dedicate IT staff, often do not have in-house IT expertise, and cannot afford to purchase expensive systems, such as storage area networks that are used by large enterprises.Collaboration with researchers at the University of Michigan from the Pastiche project, a peer-to-peer backup approach, and Ismene project, a policy management system, provides the company a unique opportunity to provide a powerful and inexpensive data backup solution to SMBs. Research challenges include: o Provide manageability: P2P backup architectures pose manageability challenges because of different types of machines in the organization in terms of connectivity, expected reliability, and available capacity. o Provide online availability: A tapeless solution should allow users to know if their data is backed up and have access to their backed up data without administrative support. o Allow security-availability tradeoffs, depending on sensitivity of content in files. o Backup virtualization as storage requirements change.Broader Impacts:Upon commercialization, the research will help provide a low-cost, richly featured, and easily manageable distributed backup system to small and medium businesses. The goal is to mitigate risks by providing more manageability for P2P technology in the context of distributed backups, providing more functionality by providing online access to backuped data, and to address a market segment (SMBs) that is not yet penetrated by large storage companies and typically does not have IT staff to do manual backups or complex system management.Keywords: Backups, peer-to-peer applications, network storageKeywords: Backups, peer-to-peer applications, network storage