WO2001040944A3 - Method and system for recovery infrastructure for computer systems - Google Patents

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WO2001040944A3
WO2001040944A3 PCT/US2000/042325 US0042325W WO0140944A3 WO 2001040944 A3 WO2001040944 A3 WO 2001040944A3 US 0042325 W US0042325 W US 0042325W WO 0140944 A3 WO0140944 A3 WO 0140944A3
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computer systems
known state
computer system
recovery infrastructure
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Kartik N Raghavan
Ryan W J Waite
Thomas G Phillips
Paul C Sutton
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Microsoft Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F11/00—Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring
    • G06F11/07—Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
    • G06F11/14—Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operation
    • G06F11/1402—Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying
    • G06F11/1415—Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying at system level
    • G06F11/1417—Boot up procedures
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F11/00—Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring
    • G06F11/07—Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
    • G06F11/14—Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operation
    • G06F11/1402—Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying
    • G06F11/1415—Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying at system level
    • G06F11/1433—Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying at system level during software upgrading

Abstract

A method and system for booting a computer system to a known state at system start-up or in the event of an error or failure while the system is running or operating. The method and system of the invention automatically executes all the necessary procedures to boot the computer system to a known state, without any human intervention. The invention uses information about the state of the computer system during previous boot attempts to determine the logical steps performed to ensure that the system boots to a known state.
PCT/US2000/042325 1999-11-30 2000-11-29 Method and system for recovery infrastructure for computer systems WO2001040944A2 (en)

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US16804899P 1999-11-30 1999-11-30
US60/168,048 1999-11-30
US09/713,108 2000-11-15
US09/713,108 US6931522B1 (en) 1999-11-30 2000-11-15 Method for a computer using the system image on one of the partitions to boot itself to a known state in the event of a failure

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