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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7975115 | Method and apparatus for separating snapshot preserved and write data A method and device for managing snapshot data is provided. Snapshots may be created having a preserved data area and a write data area. The preserved data area is used to maintain snapshot data corresponding to the point-in-time when the snapshot was created while ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971013 | Compensating for write speed differences between mirroring storage devices by striping A method and system for data storage provides a digital fast-write storage device, a plurality of digital slow-write storage devices, and a controller. The digital fast-write storage device might be a solid state drive. The digital slow-write storage devices might b... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7971012 | Mail processing computer automatic recovery system and method An improved method and system to return a mail processing control computer back into operation after a hard drive failure. A first phase is a back-up process for the primary drive of the mail processing computer. A second phase is the recovery process when a primary... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7971015 | Generating and using checkpoints in a virtual computer system To generate a checkpoint for a virtual machine (VM), first, while the VM is still running, a copy-on-write (COW) disk file is created pointing to a parent disk file that the VM is using. Next, the VM is stopped, the VM' s memory is marked COW, the device state of th... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7971014 | Information processing apparatus and data recovering method In an information processing apparatus, when an instruction is issued to write back storage contents of a main memory unit that is non-volatile, data and a write destination address included in a backup data that is set with a read permission are extracted from the ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966463 | Asynchronous remote copy system and control method for the same Provided is a control method for an asynchronous remote copy system, the method including: fixing data in a secondary volume; determining a certain area in the secondary volume that contains data required to be copied to a primary volume from the secondary volume in... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966354 | Method and computer for supporting construction of backup configuration For a storage system which holds backup data of a first data storage extent in one or more second data storage extents in use of a first backup method, a backup status in a first backup method in a prescribed period is acquired and a first backup performance in a fi... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962709 | Network redirector systems and methods for performing data replication Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recover... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962710 | Techniques for creating checkpoints Techniques for creating checkpoints are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for creating file system checkpoints comprising the steps of modifying a first data block and a second data block with a first trans... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962711 | Pre-caching files from removable device to expedite perceived download performance A method and a processing device may be provided for detecting a device newly connected to the processing device. The processing device may copy files from the device to a cache of the processing device. In some embodiments, the files may include a digital image fil... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962712 | Method for controlling storage device controller, storage device controller, and program Disclosed herein is a method for controlling a storage device controller connected to a storage device provided with a plurality of storage volumes for storing data respectively and an information processing apparatus for requesting an input/output of data so as to ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958325 | Handling temporary files in a file system with snapshots A temporary file is identified. The temporary file includes a data block containing a first file image. A determination is made whether the temporary block has been included in a previous snapshot. Responsive to receiving a modification of the temporary block that h... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958326 | Storage system and storage control method The correspondence between a plurality of virtual storage positions in a virtual volume for logically holding a snapshot image of a main volume in which data elements transmitted from a higher-level device are written and a plurality of address information elements ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953947 | Creating a snapshot based on a marker transferred from a first storage system to a second storage system A storage system and snapshot method wherein after a first processor transfers data stored in a first data area to a second storage system, the first processor transfers a first marker stored in a first marker area to a second storage system so that the first marker... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953946 | Controlled anticipation in creating a shadow copy Controlling data retention of a collection of data in a data store. An instruction is received to store a shadow collection of data to the data store. The data store has a previous version of the shadow collection of data. An available amount of data storage space o... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949842 | Method and apparatus for formatting storage medium A method for formatting a storage medium. The method includes saving management information associated with data that is to be protected from the formatting, the management information indicating where the data to be protected is stored, formatting a management info... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949843 | Method and system for single pass volume scanning for multiple destination mirroring A method for operating a computer data storage system is disclosed. The system operates an active file system on a first volume of a plurality of volumes of storage devices connected to one or more servers, each volume being a plurality of storage devices. Snapshots... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949840 | Method for saving computer data The invention relates to a method for saving computer data which consist in transferring the data to be saved from a client computer to a buffer storage formed by the hard disc of a backup server, organized in a plurality of volumes of predetermined size, and in the... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949841 | Protection of critical memory using replication Typical computer programs may incur costly memory errors that result in corrupted data. A new memory model is presented wherein it may be determined that certain data is critical and critical data may be stored and protected during computer application execution. Cr... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945753 | Computer system, management method and storage network system A computer system wherein, when a state of the primary host computer is in an active state, a data sent from the primary host computer to the first storage system is copied through a first copy route which includes a route from the first storage system to the second... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945751 | Disk image inheritance A disk image is generated, stored in at least one persistent storage device, comprises at least one software application, and is a root disk image. An inheritance tree comprising a root node associated with the root disk image is created. A new disk image of a disk ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945752 | Method and apparatus for achieving consistent read latency from an array of solid-state storage devices A technique for achieving consistent read latency from an array of non-volatile solid-state memories involves an external entity determining the “busy” or “not busy” status of non-volatile solid-state memory elements in a RAID group. An external data layout ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945750 | Storage system and remote copy control method for storage system A storage system of this invention maintains consistency of the stored contents between volumes even when a plurality of remote copying operations are executed asynchronously. A plurality of primary storage control devices and a plurality of secondary storage contro... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945749 | Data mirroring method A copy source device includes bit map acquisition and bit map merge functions. In accordance with bit-map management information in which a bit map indicating the presence of written data is rounded, the bit map acquisition and bit map merger acquires required bit m... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941619 | Space-optimized backup set conversion A system for space-optimized backup set conversion may include a backup converter and a first sequence of backup images of a data source. Each backup image may be of a particular backup image type, such as a full image, a differential image, or an incremental image.... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941620 | Double-allocation data-replication system A data-allocation data-replication system includes a controller adapted to respond to back-up requests from host systems by first allocating an accumulated data set containing multiple source data sets. An index data set is then allocated incorporating index keys an... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941622 | Point in time remote copy for multiple sites A method for copying data to multiple remote sites includes transmitting data from a first volume in a primary storage system to a back-up volume provided in a secondary storage system. The primary storage system is located at a primary site, and the secondary stora... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941621 | Automatically mounting and unmounting a volume during a backup or restore operation A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for sharing non-distributed, random-access storage resources among a plurality of computer systems. A first backup or restore operation may be initiated. In response to initiation of the first back... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937548 | System and method for improved snapclone performance in a virtualized storage system A system and method of creating a snapclone for on-line point-in-time complete backup in a virtualized storage system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for creating a snapclone for on-line point-in-time complete backup in a virtualized storage system include... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937546 | Data duplication control method When there is a change in a group of volumes managed by a host computer, data duplication processing is immediately carried out against the changed volume. The host computer includes a volume-managing portion, a data duplication-controlling portion which executes th... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937547 | System and method for high performance enterprise data protection High performance, enterprise-level data protection system and method provides efficient block-level incremental snapshots of primary storage devices, and instant availability of such snapshots in immediately mountable form that can be directly used in place of the p... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937369 | Data mover discovery of object extent Performing data backup for a client includes receiving, at a host other than the client, volume information including data indicating a physical data storage location of at least a part of a volume comprising one or more stored objects associated with the client; an... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937372 | Snapshot indexing Managing backup data comprises mounting a snapshot of a file system. Each of the plurality of snapshots is taken at a particular time and each comprises a replica of the data set at that particular time. The mounted snapshot is accessed. For each of the one or more ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937545 | Method and apparatus for file-level restore from raw partition backups Method and apparatus for file-level restore from raw partition backups. A backup mechanism may be provided that is configured to perform raw partition backups to a media server and to support file-level restores from the raw partition backups through, for example, F... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934066 | Extensible application backup system and method An archive method and system receives a backup request for a target dataset used by an application on a primary storage system to be backed up on a secondary storage system. Different applications may each have a corresponding proprietary application format for stor... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933872 | Database backup, refresh and cloning system and method An automated physical database backup, refresh and cloning system and method automatically generates scripts or commands for implementing one or more tasks related to physical database backup and/or database and application refresh or cloning operations between a so... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930500 | Data processing system having a plurality of storage systems It is an object of the present invention to conduct data transfer or data copying between a plurality of storage systems, without affecting the host computer of the storage systems. Two or more auxiliary storage systems 100B, 100C are connected to a pr... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930271 | Method and apparatus for data processing The invention relates to data processing methods and systems including: a method of database replication in which information strings are assigned to serialization groups for processing; a method of memory management in which data is read from a storage space area w... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930496 | Processing a read request to a logical volume while relocating a logical volume from a first storage location to a second storage location using a copy relationship Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for relocating a logical volume from a first storage location to a second storage location using a copy relationship. An operation is initiated to move a logical volume from a first storage location to a seco... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930497 | Using multiple sidefiles to buffer writes to primary storage volumes to transfer to corresponding secondary storage volumes in a mirror relationship Provided are an article of manufacture, method, and system for using multiple sidefiles to buffer writes to primary storage volumes to transfer to corresponding secondary storage volumes in a mirror relationship. Information is provided on a mirror relationship for ... | 04/19/2011 |
