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7627687 Methods and apparatus for managing data flow in a continuous data replication system having journaling  
Method and apparatus to provide a data replication system to receive a data transfer request from a first component at a transmitter module in a continuous data replication system having a...
7627616 Database storage and maintenance using row index ordering  
A computer-implemented method for flexibly storing data in a database so as to allow facile updating and maintenance of the database, including the steps of: (a) providing a first array having rows...
7620794 Storage system with storage apparatuses including virtual switches  
An object of the present invention is to integrally manage disk storage apparatuses through virtualization. Some physical storage apparatuses 14 connected to a host computer 10 via a...
7620786 Storage recovery using a delta log  
A system and method for removing one volume of a redundant data storage system, keeping a delta log of subsequent changes to the remaining volumes of the redundant data storage system, replacing...
7620785 Using roll-forward and roll-backward logs to restore a data volume  
A roll-back memory can be used to incrementally restore one or more data volumes in reverse chronological order to the data state they occupied at some prior point in time without using a backup...
7620742 Write capture for fibre channel fabric snapshot service  
The snapshot capability moving into the SAN fabric and being provided as a snapshot service. A well-known address is utilized to receive snapshot commands. Each switch in the fabric connected to a...
7620665 Method and system for a generic metadata-based mechanism to migrate relational data between databases  
A method and system for migrating data between databases is provided. Metadata is obtained from a source database and used to determine the manner in which the data within the source database...
7617369 Fast failover with multiple secondary nodes  
A method, system, computer system, and computer program product to quickly synchronize replicas of data stored at multiple secondary nodes upon failure of a primary node. Secondary nodes to which...
7613889 System, method, and program for determining if write data overlaps source data within a data migration scheme  
Provided are a method, system, and program for migrating source data to target data. A write request is received to write application data to source data not yet migrated to the target data....
7613888 Maintain owning application information of data for a data storage system  
A data storage system writes data supplied from a host to data storage in accordance with write I/O of an owning application. A workload manager directs the processing of the supplied data in...
7613785 Decreased response time for peer-to-peer remote copy write operation  
Methods, system and computer program product are provided to improve the efficiency of data transfers in a PPRC environment. Any or all of three features may be implemented, each of which reduces...
7610511 Journal migration method and data recovery management method  
Provided is a computer system including a first storage subsystem and a second storage subsystem. The first storage subsystem has a first storage unit and a first control unit. The second storage...
7610459 Maintain owning application information of data for a data storage system  
A data storage system writes data supplied from a host to data storage in accordance with write I/O of an owning application. A workload manager directs the processing of the supplied data in...
7607034 Data storage system and control method thereof  
Hard discs constituting a disc array system are arranged at locations far from one another so as to eliminate their simultaneous damage due to a local disaster and concentration of the processing...
7606940 Remote copy system  
A remote copy system includes a first storage system including a first storage controller and a first data volume. The first storage controller is configured to control data access requests to the...
7603392 System, method and computer program product for storing transient state information  
A method, system and computer program product for storing transient state information, the method includes: defining a first logical storage space within at least one storage device in response to...
7600087 Distributed remote copy system  
Primary storage subsystems synchronously send write data to an intermediate storage system. Upon receiving the write data, the intermediate storage system 100 c generates control data, which...
7600086 Method, system, and program for retention management and protection of stored objects  
Provided is a method for managing retention of stored objects, comprising: receiving a modification request with respect to an attribute or archive policy for an object; determining whether an...
7599932 Data storage using identifiers  
A system and method are disclosed for processing a data stream. A data segment is received. It is determined whether the data segment has been previously stored. In the event that the data segment...
7596673 Failure tolerant data storage  
A method for storing data across N storage devices S 1 . . . S N , wherein at least one the storage devices has a storage capacity not equal to a storage capacity of others involves identifying a...
7596672 Synchronous mirroring including writing image updates to a file  
A destination storage server, which may be a filer, mirrors a volume managed by a source storage server, which may also be a filer. According to an embodiment of the invention, changes made to the...
7596658 Method for expanding capacity of replication volume  
A management computer comprises: a cascade configuration storage section which stores volume cascade configuration information which is information related to the configuration of the volume...
7596585 Object replication using information quality of service  
A database replication function for a local object and one or more destination objects, where one or more local applications make requests to the source objects is disclosed. A request logging...
7594086 Storage system for copying data and storing in a plurality of storage devices  
A storage system comprises a primary storage device having a primary storage area, a first secondary storage device having a first secondary storage area, and a second secondary storage device...
7594074 Storage system  
To provide a storage system with a cost/performance meeting the system scale, from a small-scale to a large-scale configuration. In the storage system, protocol transformation units and data...
7590812 Apparatus, system, and method for archiving a log  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for archiving log data. In one embodiment, an allocation module allocates a plurality of log logical volumes in a storage pool for storing copies of...
7590808 Method and system for synchronizing storage system data  
In accordance with an example of an embodiment of the invention, a method for comparing a first unit of data stored in a first storage system and a second unit of data stored in a second storage...
7590807 System and method for record retention date in a write once read many storage system  
This invention provides a specified retention date within a data set that is locked against deletion or modification within a WORM storage implementation. This retention date scheme does not...
7590780 Method and computer program product to migrate legacy data to a RAID array while contemporaneously providing user access to legacy data  
A method and related computer program product for migrating legacy data to a RAID array while contemporaneously providing user access to legacy data, comprising connecting the legacy drive to the...
7590667 File replication method for distributed file systems  
A file replication method which allows, between a plurality of virtualized-and-unified file systems, real-time creation of a partial copy of that one of the virtualized-and-unified file systems as...
7587617 Data repository and method for promoting network storage of data  
In general, the invention features methods by which more-than one client program connected to a network stores the same data item on a storage device of a data repository connected to the network....
7587565 Generating automated and scheduled SAN copy sessions for ISB protocol systems  
Systems and methods for performing scheduled backups and recovery of data generated by a production application operating on a MAGIC platform located on a host computer. The data is stored in a...
7587563 Method and system to make a read-only file system appear to be writeable  
A writeable clone of a read-only dataset, e.g., an RPPI of a file system, a mirror file system, etc., is created to make the read-only dataset appear from a client's perspective to be...
7584339 Remote backup and restore operations for ISB protocol systems  
Systems and methods for performing scheduled backups and recovery of data generated by a production application operating on a MAGIC platform located on a host computer. The data is stored in a...
7584337 Method and system for obtaining data stored in a data store  
A method, apparatus, and system for accessing units of storage that depends at least in part on an address of the unit of storage and the time that data was written to the unit of storage.
7581069 Multiple computer system with enhanced memory clean up  
The updating of only some memory locations in a multiple computer environment in which at least one applications program ( 50 ) executes simultaneously on a plurality of computers M 1 , M 2 . . ....
7581061 Data migration using temporary volume to migrate high priority data to high performance storage and lower priority data to lower performance storage  
The storage control device of the present invention uses a temporary volume to move data rapidly between volume groups. The storage control device forms a plurality of volume groups by grouping...
7577807 Methods and devices for restoring a portion of a data store  
A storage management device receives a request to restore a portion of a data store to its content at a specified past time, which is selected from a substantially continuous time interval. In...
7577806 Systems and methods for time dependent data storage and recovery  
A method, apparatus, and system for accessing units of storage that depends at least in part on an address of the unit of storage and the time that data was written to the unit of storage.
7577805 Using bandwidth and capacity parameters to control remote copy operations in storage systems  
A system is provided for storage of journal data from a primary site to a secondary site with a predefined quality of service. In one implementation, the primary storage system stores information...
7577788 Disk array apparatus and disk array apparatus control method  
A journal write unit writes journal data into a third storage device. The journal data includes an identifier of a logical volume in a first storage device into which data has been written,...
7577786 Restore accelerator for serial media backup systems  
A method for accelerating a tape backup system restore process receives a list of files that are to be restored and searches a tape catalogue to find tape volume and file sequence numbers for each...
7577689 Method and system to archive data  
A method and a system is provided of to process data. For example, the method and system may be used to archive documents. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving original data for...
7574570 Billing system for information dispersal system  
A billing process is disclosed for a information dispersal system or digital data storage system. In one embodiment of the invention, the original data to be stored is separated into a number of...
7574459 Method and system for verifying data in a data protection system  
A method for verifying data copies generated by a data protection system is provided. In accordance with the method, intents for selecting a data copy to be verified are determined. The intents may...
7571280 Cluster-type storage system and managing method of the cluster-type storage system  
A storage system 1 includes: plural protocol transformation units 10 that transform, to a protocol within the system, a read/write protocol of data exchanged with servers 3 or hard disk...
7571268 Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected times  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a primary control unit sends a selected time to a plurality of secondary control units. Clocks are periodically synchronized at...
7571261 Service interface for fibre channel fabric snapshot service  
The snapshot capability moving into the SAN fabric and being provided as a snapshot service. A well-known address is utilized to receive snapshot commands. Each switch in the fabric connected to a...
7567991 Replication of snapshot using a file system copy differential  
A snapshot copy facility stores snapshot copies of a production, file system. The snapshot copy facility receives a request for the difference between a specified older snapshot,copy and a...
7565500 Allocating storage area according to physical position information of a storage device  
A method of allocating storage areas, intended to reserve the storage areas formed on a storage device for storing data, this method including the steps of: registering beforehand as a storage...