Patent ID: 7861111
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing disaster recovery for a plurality of computing service enterprise customers with a plurality of data centers, comprising: providing for each enterprise customer a primary location; providing for each enterprise customer a respective backup location separate from the enterprise customer's primary location, wherein those enterprise customers that share the same primary location have their respective backup locations distributed among the plurality of data centers so that the total backup capacity required at any backup location for all of the enterprise customer's from a particular primary location that are assigned to that backup location is substantially less than the capacity of the particular primary location; for each enterprise customer, mirroring transaction data received at the enterprise customer's primary location to the enterprise customer's backup location; for each enterprise customer, storing a copy of configuration changes to the enterprise customer's applications made at the enterprise customer's primary location to the enterprise customer's backup location; and responsive to a failure of one of the plurality of data centers, for each enterprise customer that has the one of the plurality of data centers as their primary location,