Fault-Tolerance through Message-logging and Check-pointing: Disaster Recovery for CORBA-based Distributed Bank Servers

Abstract

This report presents results of our endeavor towards developing a failure-recovery variant of a CORBA-based bank server that provides fault tolerance features through message logging and checkpoint logging. In this group of projects, three components were developed to satisfy the requirements: 1) a message-logging protocol for the branch servers of the distributed banking system to log required information; 2) a recovery module that restarts the bank server using the message log to help the restarted bank server process subsequent requests for various operations; 3) a monitor module that periodically checks whether the bank server is down and helps the recovery module restart the bank server if the latter has crashed.