Application distributed optimal backup model

1. A backup agent for generating backups, comprising:

a persistent storage that stores backup/restoration policies; and

a backup manager programmed to:

obtain production host computing resource characteristics associated with production hosts;

perform a computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts;

perform an availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups;

coordinate generating the backups using the application-level computing resource distribution and the backup/restoration policies to obtain the backups by:

generating backup initiation instructions for each production host based on a corresponding policy of the backup/restoration policies and the application-level computing resource distribution by identifying an administrator-specified maximum number of sessions of a first policy of the backup/restoration policies; and

sending the generated backup initiation instructions to corresponding production agents of the production hosts; and

store the obtained backups in backup storage.

2. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein the production host computing resource characteristics is a cardinality of a total number of processing cores of each respective production host.

3. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein performing the computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts comprises:

identifying a maximum availability of a plurality of computing resources for each of the production hosts; and

storing each respective plurality of computing resources in a corresponding resource profile of the resource profiles.

4. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein performing the availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups comprises:

identifying a limiting resource of each of the production hosts using the obtained resource profiles;

determining a maximum number of concurrent backup generation sessions for each of the production hosts based on the identified limiting resource of each of the production hosts; and

storing the maximum number of concurrent backup generation sessions for each of the production hosts as the application-level computing resources distribution.

5. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein generating the backup initiation instructions for each production host based on the corresponding policy of the backup/restoration policies and the application level computing resource distribution is further performed by:

obtaining the first policy that corresponds to a first production host of the production hosts;

identifying a first maximum number of sessions for the first production host specified by the application-level computing resource distribution;

making a determination that the first maximum number of sessions is larger than the administrator-specified maximum number of sessions; and

specifying the administrator-specified maximum number of sessions for the first production host in the backup initiation instructions.

6. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein generating the backup initiation instructions for each production host based on the corresponding policy of the backup/restoration policies and the application level computing resource distribution is further performed by:

obtaining the first policy that corresponds to a first production host of the production hosts;

identifying a first maximum number of sessions for the first production host specified by the application-level computing resource distribution;

making a determination that the first maximum number of sessions is smaller than the administrator-specified maximum number of sessions; and

specifying the first maximum number of sessions for the first production host in the backup initiation instructions.

7. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein the backups are associated with applications executing on the production hosts.

8. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein the backup storage is separate from the backup agent.

9. The backup agent of claim 8 , wherein the production hosts are separate from the backup storage.

10. The backup agent of claim 1 , wherein the production host computing resource characteristics associated with the production hosts are obtained in response to a policy of the backup/restoration policies being triggered.

11. The backup agent of claim 10 , where the policy of the backup/restoration policies is triggered by an occurrence of a predetermined event.

12. The backup agent of claim 11 , wherein the predetermined event is a predetermined point in time.

13. A method for generating backups, comprising:

obtaining production host computing resource characteristics associated with production hosts;

performing a computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts;

performing an availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups;

coordinating generating the backups using the application-level computing resource distribution and backup/restoration policies to obtain the backups by:

generating backup initiation instructions for each production host based on a corresponding policy of the backup/restoration policies and the application-level computing resource distribution by identifying an administrator-specified maximum number of sessions of a first policy of the backup/restoration policies; and

sending the generated backup initiation instructions to corresponding production agents of the production hosts; and

storing the obtained backups in backup storage.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein performing the computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts comprises:

identifying a maximum availability of a plurality of computing resources for each of the production hosts; and

storing each respective plurality of computing resources in a corresponding resource profile of the resource profiles.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein performing the availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups comprises:

identifying a limiting resource of each of the production hosts using the obtained resource profiles;

determining a maximum number of concurrent backup generation sessions for each of the production hosts based on the identified limiting resource of each of the production hosts; and

storing the maximum number of concurrent backup generation sessions for each of the production hosts as the application-level computing resources distribution.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for generating backups, the method comprising:

obtaining production host computing resource characteristics associated with production hosts;

performing a computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts;

performing an availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups;

coordinating generating the backups using the application-level computing resource distribution and backup/restoration policies to obtain the backups by:

generating backup initiation instructions for each production host based on a corresponding policy of the backup/restoration policies and the application-level computing resource distribution by identifying an administrator-specified maximum number of sessions of a first policy of the backup/restoration policies; and

sending the generated backup initiation instructions to corresponding production agents of the production hosts; and

storing the obtained backups in backup storage.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein performing the computing resource analysis of the production host computing resource characteristics to obtain resource profiles for each of the production hosts comprises:

identifying a maximum availability of a plurality of computing resources for each of the production hosts; and

storing each respective plurality of computing resources in a corresponding resource profile of the resource profiles.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein performing the availability analysis of the obtained resource profiles to determine an application-level computing resources distribution for generating the backups comprises:

identifying a limiting resource of each of the production hosts using the obtained resource profiles;

determining a maximum number of concurrent backup generation sessions for each of the production hosts based on the identified limiting resource of each of the production hosts; and

storing the maximum number of concurrent backup generation sessions for each of the production hosts as the application-level computing resources distribution.