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

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在通过利用小型企业机器上的可用磁盘容量，为其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没有得到满足，因为他们负担不起专门的IT人员，通常没有内部的IT专业知识，也负担不起购买昂贵的系统，比如大型企业使用的存储区域网络。与密歇根大学的Pastiche项目（一种点对点备份方法）和Ismene项目（一种策略管理系统）的研究人员合作，为公司提供了一个独特的机会，为中小企业提供强大而廉价的数据备份解决方案。研究挑战包括：o提供可管理性：P2P备份架构提出了可管理性挑战，因为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。o提供在线可用性：无磁带解决方案应允许用户知道他们的数据是否备份，并在没有管理支持的情况下访问备份数据。o根据文件内容的敏感性，允许在安全性和可用性之间进行权衡。o根据存储需求的变化进行虚拟化备份。更广泛的影响：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上下文中为P2P技术提供更多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的功能，并解决尚未被大型存储公司渗透的市场细分（smb），并且通常没有IT人员进行手动备份或复杂的系统管理。关键词：备份，点对点应用，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