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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8046550 | Systems and methods for performing backup operations of virtual machine files Backup systems and methods are disclosed for a virtual computing environment. Certain examples include a system having a backup management server that communicates with a host server having at least one virtual machine. The management server coordinates with the hos... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046547 | Storage system snapshots for continuous file protection Techniques for continuous data protection can include creating snapshots of one or more underlying storage volumes upon specific file system events. Generating snapshots upon every file close event can protect the files in a storage system by keeping a snapshot of e... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046551 | Techniques for processing I/O requests Described are techniques executed in a data storage system in connection with processing an I/O request. The I/O request is received. It is determined whether the I/O request is a write request. If the I/O request is a write request, write request processing is perf... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046555 | Method of mirroring data between clustered NAS systems Data of a global file system spread over multiple local NAS systems may be consolidated as a copy into a single remote NAS system. When remote copy is set up, the local NAS systems replace referrals within the global file system with directories and send these in pl... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046333 | Incremental dump with a metadata container walk using inode-to-parent mapping information An embodiment of the invention provides a traversal engine that traverses (walks) through metadata containers (e.g., inodes) in a file system and determines the metadata containers that have been modified (added, changed, deleted, or renamed) within a particular tim... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046552 | Tracking metadata changes during data copy in a storage system Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for tracking metadata changes during copying in a storage system. One embodiment includes a method that uses a bitmap and two fences to track changes to metadata while a copy of the metadata is being transferred fr... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046545 | Continuous backup Providing continuous backup of a storage device includes subdividing the storage device into subsections, providing a time indicator that is modified periodically, and, in response to a request to write new data to a particular subsection of the storage device at a ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046554 | Storage subsystem and performance tuning method The storage system includes a storage subsystem including a plurality of storage units and a storage control device coupled to a computer and the storage subsystem, the storage control device providing the host computer with a logical unit assigned to a storage unit... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041911 | Remote copy system and method of deciding recovery point objective in remote copy system A remote copy system comprises a primary storage system having a primary volume, and a secondary storage system having a secondary volume forming a pair relationship with the primary volume. When the primary storage system receives a write command from a primary hos... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041909 | Disk array system and method for migrating from one storage system to another The present invention provides a storage system for migrating a storage apparatus. The storage system comprises the steps of: defining a logical volume on a storage apparatus to be migrated coupled to a first controller as a local volume coupled to a second controll... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041910 | Storage apparatus and control method thereof This storage apparatus further includes a control unit for creating a second volume as a backup volume of the first volume upon receiving a backup command of the first volume from the host apparatus, and sending a completion reply of the backup command to the host a... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041673 | Hierarchical systems and methods for performing data storage operations The invention is a hierarchical backup system. The interconnected network computing devices are put into groups of backup cells. A backup cell has a manager software agent responsible maintaining and initiating a backup regime for the network computing devices in th... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041678 | Integrated data availability and historical data protection A single native integrated system may be provided for replicating data to one or more copies of high-availability data and for replicating the data to one or more copies of backup data. The data may be replicated, in near real-time, to the one or more copies of high... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041679 | Synthetic differential backups creation for a database using binary log conversion Creating a synthetic database backup using binary logs. A full backup of a database may be stored, followed by one or more incremental backups. The one or more incremental backups may include first binary log files. A first synthetic differential backup may be creat... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041681 | Method for performing a backup by querying a backup infrastructure One aspect of the invention is a method for backing up data. An example of the method includes querying a backup infrastructure to ascertain backup capabilities of the backup infrastructure. This example also may include broadcasting the capabilities of the backup i... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037265 | Storage system and data management method Storage system and data management method to reduce the load on a virtualization apparatus by executing backup processing or restoration processing within one apparatus in which an externally connected storage apparatus and a tape library apparatus are installed. Th... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037266 | Apparatus and method for archiving digital content An improved memory card includes an interface for receiving content from an appliance, a primary memory, a secondary memory, and primary controller. The primary controller is configured to selectively write the content only on the primary memory card, or only on the... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037267 | Remote copy system and remote site power saving method A computer migrates to the same remote controller, from among a plurality of remote virtual computers at a remote site, two or more remote virtual computers belonging to a group configured from remote virtual computers with similar remote copy patterns. In the remot... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037264 | Distributed snapshot process Systems and methods for providing an efficient partitioned resource server are disclosed. The partitioned resource server includes a plurality of individual servers, and the individual servers support a storage service. The systems and methods provide archiving proc... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037268 | Storage system and operation method thereof Aiming to suitably balance, when backing up data to a magnetic tape, search time and writing/reading performance depending on the purpose of the backup, provided is a disk array apparatus including a disk device having hard disks, a magnetic tape device including a ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032725 | Backup data management on a fractionally reserved storage system Embodiments of the present invention provide a mechanism by which a server system executing a host application monitors utilization of overwrite reserve space on a volume storing application data. The server system executes space reservation policies to ensure that ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032726 | Remote copy system A remote copy system includes a plurality of first storage systems and a plurality of second storage systems. Each first storage system assigns a sequential number to write data received from the host and sends the write data with the sequential number to the second... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032784 | Duplication combination management program, duplication combination management apparatus, and duplication combination management method A simultaneous failure occurrence degree calculation section calculates a simultaneous failure occurrence degree a value of which becomes smaller with an increase in a difference between numeric values indicative of manufacture date information on a computer which p... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028136 | Retaining disk identification in operating system environment after a hardware-driven snapshot restore from a snapshot-LUN created using software-driven snapshot architecture A program, method and system are disclosed for managing a snapshot backup restore through a hardware snapshot interface, i.e. a hardware-driven snapshot restore, based upon a software-driven snapshot backup, e.g. created with software such as volume shadow copy serv... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8028138 | Replication of deduplicated storage system A method of replicating a deduplicated storage system is disclosed. The method comprises requesting the state of a replica system. The method further comprises sending a container to the replica system and sending a file system log record to the replica system. ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8028139 | Remote copy method and remote copy system In a configuration in which it is necessary to transfer data from a first storage system to a third storage system through a storage system between the storage systems, there is a problem that it is inevitable to give an excess logical volume to a second storage sys... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8028140 | Save set bundling for staging Backing up data blocks is disclosed. An indication that a first set of one or more backed up data blocks are related at an application level to one or more other sets of one or more backed up data blocks is received. An associating data that associates the first set... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8028137 | System and method of selective data mirroring in a data storage device Systems and methods of selective data mirroring are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a device is disclosed that includes a data storage medium and a controller operably coupled to the data storage medium. The controller configured to selectively enable a data ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8028009 | Incremental garbage collection of data in a secondary storage A method and apparatus for different embodiments of incremental garbage collection of data in a secondary storage. In one embodiment, a method comprises locating blocks of data in a log that are referenced and within a range at a tail of the log. The method also inc... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024534 | Replication engine communicating with a splitter to split writes between a storage controller and replication engine Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for a replication engine communicating with a splitter to split writes between a storage controller and replication engine. Communication is initiated with the splitter implemented in a storage controller man... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024537 | Storage system, remote copy and management method therefor A copy source storage controller received write data added with a time and issued from a host computer transfers the write data with the time to a copy destination storage controller. If there are a plurality of copy destination storage controllers, a representative... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024536 | Method of constructing replication environment and storage system A management computer collects a usage condition of a volume from a host computer and a storage apparatus at each site, consolidates management thereof, and prevents a volume from duplicating among applications as a copy source. This makes it possible to select a us... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024538 | High efficiency virtualized portable archive According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed for storing and archiving point-in-time sets of a raw data set in an environment including at least one server storing the raw data set. The method includes providing a virtualization layer on a computing resources ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024535 | Techniques for producing a consistent copy of source data at a target Described area system and computer program product for producing a point in time copy of source data. A set of records corresponding to a time ordered series of recorded file operations as applied to said source data is received. The set of records includes one or m... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024292 | Creation of a single snapshot using a server job request Systems and methods for backing up and/or restoring data. When a backup operation is initiated, systems and methods are provided for creating a single snapshot of the backup items, including backup groupings. The single snapshot is used by a backup/recovery applicat... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015374 | Method, system and computer program for backing-up data with centralized control A back-up solution (300) is proposed for use in a data processing system, wherein different host machines support multiple guest machines. For this purpose, a master one of the host machines owns (306) a scheduling file, which indicates which guest sys... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015375 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for parallel processing and saving tracking information for multiple write requests in a data replication environment including multiple storage devices A method of parallel processing and storing tracking information for multiple write requests in a data replication environment including multiple data storage devices is disclosed. According to one aspect, the method includes receiving a plurality of first write req... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015376 | Methods and systems for management of copies of a mapped storage volume Methods and systems for rapid creation of copies of a mapped storage volume. A new copy of a mapped storage volume is created by copying the mapping table and updating meta-data associated with the new copy and any ancestral parents thereof. The physical blocks rema... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015377 | Method and apparatus for de-duplication after mirror operation During mirroring operations, de-duplication operations are applied to the mirror volumes. Data stored to a first volume is mirrored to a second volume. The second volume is a virtual volume having a plurality of logical addresses, such that segments of physical stor... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010760 | Storage system performing virtual volume backup and method thereof The respective data fragments stored in each page assigned to the respective virtual areas of the virtual volume are copied to the logical volume, and information representing the respective copy source pages corresponding with information representing the respectiv... | 08/30/2011 |
