Electronic systems and circuits are often utilized in a number of applications to achieve advantageous results. Numerous electronic technologies such as computers, video equipment, and communication systems facilitate increased productivity and cost reduction in analyzing and communicating information in most areas of business, science, education and entertainment. Frequently, these activities involve storage of vast amounts of important and confidential information and significant resources are expended storing and processing the information. Maintaining and tracking the information is often very important for a variety or reasons (e.g., recovery, corruption correction, etc.).
Traditionally, many applications store data in a registry file. For example, traditional application configuration information can be stored in a registry file. Changes that are done are typically local to the system registry. In the event of an application failover, if this data is not available on the failover node the application may not start or may start with an old configuration. Moreover the registry configuration is usually binary data that is replicated and not highly available in a transaction consistent format. Traditional attempts using Registry backup and restore APIs (e.g., RegSaveKey/RegRestoreKey, etc.) are usually not transaction consistent and do not usually scale in terms of performance (CPU/Memory/TO) when the configuration data is large.