Patent ID: 7343459
Filing Date: 2008-03-11
Classification: G06F,G06N,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for detecting risks to data storage resources in a network comprising a storage operation cell hierarchy comprising hierarchically organized storage operation cells, the method comprising: maintaining multiple storage policies for a plurality of storage operation cells within the storage operation cell hierarchy, the policies defining one or more risk criteria relating to a plurality of physical data storage resources, wherein each of the plurality of physical data storage resources is associated with one or more storage operation cells within the storage operation cell hierarchy, wherein each of the plurality of storage operation cell comprises a data agent component of a client computer for communicating with a physical data storage resource, a media agent component for communicating with another physical data storage resource, and a storage manager component for managing the data agent component and the media agent component; receiving data relating to a status and a type of a particular physical data storage resource among the plurality of physical data storage resources through the storage manager component of a corresponding storage operation cell among the plurality of storage operation cells, wherein the type of the particular physical data storage resource indicates whether the resource stores primary or secondary copies of data; determining whether the received data relating to the particular physical data storage resource satisfies any of the risk criteria based on the received status and type of the particular physical data storage resource; and upon determining that the particular physical data storage resource satisfies at least one of the risk criteria, automatically implementing a storage operation to mitigate risk at the particular physical data storage resource.