Fault-tolerant back-up archive using an ASP model for disaster recovery

Brent J. Liu; H. K. Huang; Fei Cao; Luis Documet; Dennis A. Sarti

doi:10.1117/12.466993

16 May 2002 Fault-tolerant back-up archive using an ASP model for disaster recovery

Brent J. Liu, H. K. Huang, Fei Cao, Luis Documet, Dennis A. Sarti

Proceedings Volume 4685, Medical Imaging 2002: PACS and Integrated Medical Information Systems: Design and Evaluation; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.466993
Event: Medical Imaging 2002, 2002, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A single point of failure in PACS during a disaster scenario is the main archive storage and server. When a major disaster occurs, it is possible to lose an entire hospital's PACS data. Few current PACS archives feature disaster recovery, but the design is limited at best. These drawbacks include the frequency with which the back-up is physically removed to an offsite facility, the operational costs associated to maintain the back-up, the ease-of-use to perform the backup consistently and efficiently, and the ease-of-use to perform the PACS image data recovery. This paper describes a novel approach towards a fault-tolerant solution for disaster recovery of short-term PACS image data using an Application Service Provider model for service. The ASP back-up archive provides instantaneous, automatic backup of acquired PACS image data and instantaneous recovery of stored PACS image data all at a low operational cost. A back-up archive server and RAID storage device is implemented offsite from the main PACS archive location. In the example of this particular hospital, it was determined that at least 2 months worth of PACS image exams were needed for back-up. Clinical data from a hospital PACS is sent to this ASP storage server in parallel to the exams being archived in the main server. A disaster scenario was simulated and the PACS exams were sent from the offsite ASP storage server back to the hospital PACS. Initially, connectivity between the main archive and the ASP storage server is established via a T-1 connection. In the future, other more cost-effective means of connectivity will be researched such as the Internet 2. A disaster scenario was initiated and the disaster recovery process using the ASP back-up archive server was success in repopulating the clinical PACS within a short period of time. The ASP back-up archive was able to recover two months of PACS image data for comparison studies with no complex operational procedures. Furthermore, no image data loss was encountered during the recovery.

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Brent J. Liu, H. K. Huang, Fei Cao, Luis Documet, and Dennis A. Sarti "Fault-tolerant back-up archive using an ASP model for disaster recovery", Proc. SPIE 4685, Medical Imaging 2002: PACS and Integrated Medical Information Systems: Design and Evaluation, (16 May 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.466993

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