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US Patent 6044444 - Remote data mirroring having preselection of automatic recovery or intervention required when a disruption is detected
US Patent Issued on March 28, 2000
Estimated Patent Expiration Date:
March 17, 2017Estimated 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.
Estimated Patent Expiration Date:
March 17, 2017Estimated 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.AbstractTwo data storage systems are interconnected by a data link for remote mirroring of data. Each volume of data is configured as local, primary in a remotely mirrored volume pair, or secondary in a remotely mirrored volume pair. Normally, a host computer directly accesses either a local or a primary volume, and data written to a primary volume is automatically sent over the link to a corresponding secondary volume. Each remotely mirrored volume pair can operate in a selected synchronization mode including synchronous, semi-synchronous, adaptive copy--remote write pending, and adaptive copy--disk. A number of automatic and non-automatic recovery mechanisms are provided on a logical volume basis for a desired level of data integrity and degree of operator or application program involvement. If a "volume domino" mode is enabled for a remotely mirrored volume pair, access to a volume of the pair is denied when the other volume is inaccessible. In a "links domino" mode, access to all remotely mirrored volumes is denied when remote mirroring is disrupted by an all-links failure. The domino modes can be used to initiate application-based recovery, for example, recovering a secondary data file using a secondary log file. In an overwrite cache mode, remote write-pending data in cache can be overwritten. In a "log-in-cache" mode, multiple versions of write data can be stored in cache in order to recover from a "rolling disaster".Other References
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