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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7788458 | Checkpoint and consistency markers Described are a method, computer program product, and system for obtaining a copy of source data in a consistent state. One or more file operations having a corresponding time sequence which modify said source data are recorded. A request for a copy of the source da... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7788459 | Direct access storage system with combined block interface and file interface access A storage system includes a storage controller and storage media for reading data from or writing data to the storage media in response to block-level and file-level I10 requests. The storage controller includes suitable interfaces for receiving the read/write reque... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783850 | Method and apparatus for master volume access during volume copy A method and device for performing a volume copy is provided. The volume copy method allows access to both the Volume Copy Source and Volume Copy Target while the volume copy process is occurring. This allows a system administrator to initiate a volume copy without ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7783849 | Using trusted user space pages as kernel data pages A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for using trusted user space pages. A kernel accesses a set of trusted pages in user space. The set of trusted user space pages are read-only pages in user mode. Each trusted user space page in t... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779218 | Data synchronization management In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, in a source controller, a signal indicative of a write request to a source volume managed by the source controller in response to the signal: writing data associated with the write request to a destination controller ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7779219 | Application transparent autonomic availability on a storage area network aware file system Techniques are provided for locating data. Mapping information for blocks associated with a file is provided. It is determined that a copy service has copied source blocks to target blocks. It is determined whether the mapping information should be updated to refer ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774567 | Copy control method and a storage device In a copy control method, during a process for the acquisition of a data copy at a designated time, a recovery period of time can still be reduced when an input/output request is issued for copy source data at the designated time. For a system that includes a first ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7774568 | Clustered snapshots in networks Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to assign a plurality of managing nodes to manage a corresponding plurality of groups of blocks forming a portion of a snapshot volume for copy-on-write execution and snapshot write execution. Further operations include co... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7774565 | Methods and apparatus for point in time data access and recovery Methods and systems for accessing data from a previous point in time, including receiving data stored in a storage system of addressable memory, the storage system including a plurality of addresses, receiving a journal history of write transactions for the storage,... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7774566 | Physical tape interchange format A virtual tape server for executing a method involving a partitioning of a virtual tape volume into a plurality of virtual tape blocks. The virtual tape volume includes a virtual tape volume header having recovery information, each virtual tape block includes a virt... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769972 | Storage system management based on a backup and recovery solution embedded in the storage system A method and/or a system of storage system management based on a backup and recovery solution embedded in the storage system is disclosed. A method of a storage system includes coordinating with a host system through a backup coordinator module embedded in the host ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769719 | File system dump/restore by node numbering A method and system for replicating a file system organized as a data structure from a source server to a target server. The replication process preserves the order of the inode table entries from the source file system to in the target file system at all stages of ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769971 | Replication and restoration of single-instance storage pools A system and method for managing single instance storage. A computer system includes at least two backup servers, each backup server included in a single-instance storage pool. A first backup server conveys a first de-duplicated list identifying data segments from t... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765371 | Method and apparatus for full backups in advance An improved system and method are disclosed for the backup and restoration of data. An init image is created for a new system. Data is uploaded from a current system and a data image is generated. The resulting data image and the init image are combined to create a ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7765372 | Storage controller and data management method Upon receiving a primary/secondary switching command from a secondary host system, a secondary storage control device interrogates a primary storage control device as to whether or not yet to be transferred data that has not been remote copied from the primary stora... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761673 | Complier assisted victim cache bypassing A method for compiler assisted victim cache bypassing including: identifying a cache line as a candidate for victim cache bypassing; conveying a bypassing-the-victim-cache information to a hardware; and checking a state of the cache line to determine a modified stat... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761672 | Data movement and initialization aggregation A system and method for copying and initializing a block of memory. To copy several data entities from a source region of memory to a destination region of memory, an instruction may copy each data entity one at a time. If an aggregate condition is determined to be ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7757056 | System and method for efficiently calculating storage required to split a clone volume A system and method efficiently calculates an estimated amount of storage required to split a clone volume from its parent volume. The system and method is illustratively embodied as a command line interface (CLI) command, i.e., a clone split estimate command, execu... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7757057 | Optimized rollback of copy-on-write snapshot volumes The present invention is an optimized method for the rollback of copy-on-write snapshot volumes. A method in accordance with the present invention may comprise the following steps: (a) creating a copy-on-write snapshot volume; (b) receiving a base volume write reque... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7757058 | Storage system having dynamic volume allocation function Access to a plurality of logical devices is enabled regardless of the number of ports provided in a storage system and the number of logical devices that can be allocated to a single port, thereby improving the usability of the logical devices. A storage system comp... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752403 | Methods and systems for secure dispersed redundant data storage Systems and methods are disclosed for providing and maintaining secure distributed randomly redundant data storage. ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7752404 | Toggling between concurrent and cascaded triangular asynchronous replication Toggling between a first storage configuration and a second storage configuration includes disabling asynchronous data transfer to a third storage group from one of the first storage group and the second storage group and enabling asynchronous data transfer to the t... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7752405 | Data recording apparatus, program product, and data recording method A data recording apparatus includes a determining unit that determines whether a storable area is present in the first storage device. The storable area is a combination of a plurality of empty areas having contiguous physical addresses with a total data volume larg... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747586 | Apparatus and method to map and copy computer files A method to copy computer files, where that method includes receiving a computer file, mapping that file to its constituent blocks, generating meta-data describing those constituent blocks, saving that meta-data in a memory device, and copying the file to one or mor... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747831 | High efficiency portable archive and data protection using a virtualization layer A high efficiency portable archive implements a storage system running on a virtualization layer to archive point-in-time versions of a raw data set and the storage system itself as a virtual system on archive media. The high efficiency portable archive can be imple... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7743227 | Volume restoration using an accumulator map In a process to restore a data volume in a first memory, a virtual point-in-time (PIT) copy of the data volume is created. Creating the virtual PIT copy includes creating first, second and third maps in memory. Each of the first, second, and third maps includes a pl... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7743225 | Ditto blocks A method for storing a data block in a storage pool, including receiving a write operation for the data block, writing the data block into the storage pool, determining a first indirect block to store in the storage pool, wherein the first indirect block references ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7743226 | Incremental method for backup of email messages A system and method for mail server backup. In one embodiment, the method may comprise storing one or more messages on a mail server, where each message is associated with an index time. The method may then perform a full backup by storing each message and a backup ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7743028 | Incremental backup of partial volumes Mechanisms for generating an incremental backup of a set of data blocks while excluding certain files that are less desired to be backed up. Examples of such files include temporary Internet files and the recycle bin. This allows the size of the incremental backup t... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739465 | Backup system, method, and program A backup system is comprised of a main storage for storing original data and a plurality of local storages for distributing and storing the data. An encoding unit of the main storage server generates, after dividing the original data, a plurality of encoded data tha... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739464 | Consistent backups of data using a roll-back log A system or method for creating a point-in-time (PIT) or backup copy of one or more data volumes using a roll-back log. The backup copy can be created without employing hot backup mode. In one embodiment, the method includes copying data blocks of a volume to a back... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734885 | Execution of point-in-time copy operations in continuous mirroring environments Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture wherein a point-in-time copy operation command for a point-in-time copy of a point-in-time source volume to a point-in-time target volume is received while performing continuous copy operations from continuou... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734883 | Method, system and program for forming a consistency group Provided are a method, system, and program for forming a consistency group of data. Information is provided on a consistency group relationship indicating a plurality of slave controllers and, for each indicated slave controller, a slave storage unit managed by the ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734884 | Simultaneous concurrent and cascaded triangular asynchronous replication Providing storage configurations for a data center includes providing synchronous data transfer from the data center to a local destination, establishing a first connection between the data center and a remote destination to provide chunks of data from the data cent... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725669 | Backup and restore operations using coherency groups for ISB protocol systems Systems and methods for performing scheduled backups and recovery of data generated by one or more production applications operating on a MAGIC platform located on two or more host computers in a coherency group. The data for a coherency group is stored in a primary... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725672 | System and method for managing data associated with copying and recovery procedures in a data storage environment This invention is a system and method related to restoring data in a data storage environment and includes program logic. ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725445 | Data replication among storage systems A first storage system stores information relating to the updating of data stored in that system as a journal. More specifically, the journal is composed of a copy of data that was used for updating and update information such as a write command used during updating... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725667 | Method for identifying the time at which data was written to a data store A method for identifying a time at which first data was written to a data store. A data store is configured to respond to data requests made to the data store with the data in the data store at a first time in the past. The method can be used to identify a time, for... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725670 | System and method of imaging a memory module while in functional operation A memory module (e.g. a hard drive, an optical drive, a flash drive, etc.) associated with a computer system may be imaged without substantial interruption to the operation of the overall system. The imaging may include applying an image to the memory module while e... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725671 | System and method for providing redundant access to metadata over a network Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among ... | 05/25/2010 |
