NDLI: Consistent Online Backup in Transactional File Systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Deka, L. Barua, G.
Copyright Year	1989
Abstract	The backup taken of a file system must be consistent, preserving data integrity across files in the file system. With file system sizes getting very large, and with demand for continuous access to data, backup has to be taken when the file system is active (is online). Arbitrarily taken online backup may result in an inconsistent backup copy. We propose a scheme referred to as mutual serializability to take a consistent backup of an active file system assuming that the file system supports transactions. The scheme extends the set of conflicting operations to include read-read conflicts, and it is shown that if the backup transaction is mutually serializable with every other transaction individually, a consistent backup copy is obtained. The user transactions continue to serialize within themselves using some standard concurrency control protocol such as Strict 2PL. We put our scheme into a formal framework to prove its correctness, and the formalization as well as the correctness proof are independent of the concurrency control protocol used to serialize user transactions. The scheme has been implemented and experiments show that consistent online backup is possible with reasonable overhead.
Sponsorship	IEEE IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Committee on Data Eng IEEE Computer Society
Starting Page	2676
Ending Page	2688
Page Count	13
File Size	370766
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10414347
Volume Number	26
Issue Number	11
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Schedules Concurrency control Protocols Databases File systems Standards Analytical models transaction Online backup consistency concurrency control file system
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Information Systems Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Science Applications

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