Data storage system controlled remote data mirroring with respectively maintained data indices
Patent 5544347 Issued on August 6, 1996. Estimated Expiration Date: August 6, 2013. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
A data storage system which automatically provides and maintains identical secondary data on a preferably geographically remote secondary data storage device. The system includes a primary host computer located in the first geographic location which is coupled to a primary data storage system also located in the first geographic location. The primary data storage system includes at least one primary data storage device on which primary data is to be stored, and a primary data storage system controller which receives data from the primary host computer and controls the storing of the primary data on the primary data storage device. The primary data storage controller is coupled by high speed communication link to a secondary data storage system controller of a secondary data storage system, and coordinates the copying of the primary data to the secondary data storing system, and is responsive to an acknowledgement from the secondary data storage system controller of at least successful receipt of the primary data for updating the maintained list of the primary data to indicate that the copied primary data has been received by the secondary data storage system to be copied to the secondary data storage device.
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