Project ID: 24K0694, 24K0994, 24K0973
Team Members: Hashir Ali, Izaan Khan, Talha Mirza
Distributed File Backup Manager
The Distributed File Backup Manager is a multi-threaded system designed to simulate enterprise-level backup solutions. It allows multiple clients to request backups concurrently while dedicated worker threads process these backups efficiently.
This project focuses on concurrency control, synchronization, and I/O management, ensuring safe and efficient handling of shared resources.
- Client-server style architecture for backup requests
- Concurrent processing of file chunks using worker threads
- Mutex-based protection for shared metadata and indexes
- Semaphore-controlled disk write operations
- Simulation of enterprise features:
- Incremental backups
- Failure recovery
- Compression
- Logging and progress tracking
- Build a multi-client backup system with concurrent request handling
- Ensure thread-safe operations using mutexes
- Control disk access using semaphores
- Implement advanced backup features:
- Incremental backups (store only modified data)
- Failure recovery mechanisms
- Compression simulation
- Logging and progress tracking
- Develop a GUI (Qt) for monitoring backup progress
- Prepare for viva on concurrency and synchronization concepts
- Generate backup requests
- Run as separate threads
- Process backup requests
- Split files into chunks
- Write data to storage
- Simulated disk storage for backups
- Mutexes: Protect metadata and backup indexes
- Semaphores: Limit concurrent disk write operations
- Clients generate file backup requests
- Requests are placed into a shared queue
- Worker threads process requests:
- Split files into chunks
- Acquire semaphore before writing to disk
- Update metadata safely using mutex
- Optional enhancements:
- Compression of file chunks
- Incremental backup handling
- Failure detection and recovery
- Logging of backup operations
- Language: C++ (Multithreading supported)
- GUI Framework: Qt (C++)
- Data Structures:
- Queues (request handling)
- Maps/Dictionaries (metadata storage)
- Multi-threaded backup system
- Mutex-protected metadata handling
- Semaphore-controlled disk access
- Optional features:
- Incremental backups
- Compression simulation
- Failure recovery system
- Qt-based GUI dashboard
- Logging system (timestamps, status, errors)
- Final demonstration and viva preparation
- Strong understanding of multithreading and concurrency
- Practical experience with I/O-heavy systems
- Implementation of synchronization primitives in real systems
- Functional distributed-style backup manager
- Interactive GUI for monitoring system activity
- Real distributed deployment over network nodes
- Cloud storage integration
- Real compression algorithms
- Encryption for secure backups
This project is developed for academic purposes.