IRJET- Application Backup and Restore across Multiple Devices

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
Volume: 05 Issue: 06 | June-2018 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
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Application Backup And Restore Across Multiple Devices
Pooja Chate1, Piyush Khadse2, Shubham Kadam3, Mayur Padma4, Prof. Ruhi A. Patankar5
1,23,4UG Student, Department of Computer Engineering, MIT Pune College, Maharashtra, Pune, India
5Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, MIT Pune College, Maharashtra, Pune, India
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Abstract – Computer system is widely used across the globe
for several purposes in different fields and failure in this
system is natural. It is not acceptable as it might lead to loss
of important data. There are several reasons which can
cause the computer system or an application to crash or fail,
thus causing loss of important data lead to redo all the
activity or task, user was performing before the system
crashed. Our system proposes a solution to this problem by
backing all the data to the cloud and thus can be restored
when the system recovers from the crash, allowing to
resume the task which the user was initially performing.
Key Words: Cloud Computing, CRIU, Backup and
Restore, Selenium WebDriver.
1. INTRODUCTION
We live in the era of information and technology
where application software plays a significant role. We use
software applications on everyday basis because they
make our life easier than it was ever before. Humans rely
on software of different kinds, specific to their purpose, to
perform different activities like use of editors to create a
digital document, use of web to perform money
transaction; there are many simulators which are also one
kind of software system which is used for testing purpose
before any physical implementation or rather actual
implementation of project.
As useful as they sound software application are
also prone to failure. These applications might lose their
current state due to several reasons which might include
power failure, application failure or the system hosting the
application itself may crash. Thus, leads to loss of
application state and eventually the data. There is no
provision available for restoring the previous system state
and the data we lost during system or application failure
causing user to redo all the task or action user was
performing before the failure. In the proposed system we
aim to backup and restore the state of the application to
the one before the failure. Several mechanisms are used to
keep track of the activity the particular application is
performing and every data set being generated by the
application and after fixed time interval it is being backed
up on cloud so it could be restored when the application or
system recovers and starts running.
The proposed application uses multithreading
approach to handle the data generated by the multiple
(currently running) applications or tasks and uploads its
data to the cloud system consistently after several
intervals.
2. PROBLEM DEFINITION
Our problem includes two major sections. The
first section deals with backup of application programs
state and in this section applications state will be stored
on cloud and the backing up process will be handled by
thread allocated to each individual application. The second
section involves restoration of application selected by
user. In this section user will select application to be
restored and from cloud the data relevant to the
application will be sent to users system for restoration.
The application can be restored on multiple devices
providing the user with flexibility with usage of different
system.
3. ARCHITECTURE OF THE SYSTEM
The system architecture involves the components
namely cloud and the users device. The cloud is where the
users data is stored after its backed-up. Cloud system
decides to which node the data should be backed-up by
determining the load on the different available nodes, the
traffic or congestion in the network and other aspects.
The user system has different application
installed and is using different web services. While using
these applications the system constantly keeps backing up
data and accordingly the cloud system stores the data
attributes in the database. So, if the application fails
because of certain reasons the data stored in cloud system
is used to restore the state of the system when the user
requests for state restoration.
Fig -1: ASBAR System Architecture

4. TECHNOLOGIES
Selenium is an automated testing suite for web
application. It is open source (free) and can be
downloaded from web. It is not a single tool but a
collection of several suite of software which are used for
testing purpose based on the organizations need. It has
four components namely Selenium Integrated
Development Environment (IDE), Selenium Remote
Control (RC), WebDriver, Selenium Grid. Our problem
statement is to take backup and restore state of an
application, so to restore state of web application we are
going to use Selenium WebDriver API.
Every browser has default automation feature
and feature is exploited by Selenium WebDriver.
Selenium WebDriver is basically a well-designed object
oriented API which enables communication between
programming languages and browsers.
Fig-2: Selenium WebDriver Architecture
As it could be seen in fig 2 the client, that is, the
user program makes a specific request by issuing a
command to the client library and as soon as the client
library receives the command it converts it to the JSON
format to communicate with the browsers driver. Later,
on receiving the request the browser processes the
request and returns the status.
In our proposed system we are using this
functionality of Selenium WebDriver to gain access to
the contents of the website fed by the user. This data is
later backed-up and is used when user initiates restore
operation.
CRIU is used to implement checkpoint or restore
functionality for Linux. It stands for checkpoint or
restore in user space. CRIU is used for application live
migration, snapshots of apps, remote debugging, process
duplication etc.
Fig-3: CRIU Process
In our proposed system in order to restore
system applications state we are using criu. Using criu
we can freeze the running application and store
checkpoint of the application on local machine as well as
on cloud storage. Later we can restore application by
retrieving that checkpoint. criu provides dump and
restore to perform checkpointing and restoration of
application state. criu uses the kernels ptrace interface
to seize the application process. Then, it injects its
parasite code to dump the memory pages of the process
into image files from within process address space.
These are the image files which are later used for
application state restoration.
5. OBSERVATIONS
5.1 System Application Restoration Result
5.1.1 Text Editors state Restoration
Based on users demand to restore the requested
application, the dumped image files of the application
state which are stored on the cloud platform are
downloaded and are used to restore the application
state. XTerm terminal environment is used to display the
restored state of the application.
5.1.2 Restoration of Program Execution State
It involves restoration or rather resumption of
the program execution from where it left off. The
programming languages involved are C, C++, Java, and
Python. Our system namely ASBAR resumes the program
execution form the point it stopped. All the previous
resulting output of the program execution is stored in a
text file.
5.2 Application Restoration Result
5.2.1 Content Restoration
It involves restoration of the web application data fields,
for example gmail account creation form, which
demands data values of those fields to be fed by users.

5.2.2 Session Restoration
It involves restoring the current user session
irrespective to which website the user visits.
6. CONCLUSION
This system proposes a solution for application state
restoration using several different techniques to backup
and restore the data securely and in an optimal fashion
reducing significant amount of effort that the used
would have had to spend on re-performing all the task.
The system provides different users with unique ID
allowing to restore the application on multiple devices
based on the ID provided.
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