US 7,191,299 B1
Method and system of providing periodic replicationGeneral
US 7,191,299 B1
Method and system of providing periodic replication
Tech Center:
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Examiner:
Hyung Sough
Art Unit:
2188 Computer Architecture and I/O
Agent:
Campbell Stephenson Ascolese LLP
Inventors:
Anand A. Kekre; Ronald S. Karr; John A. Colgrove; Kedar M. Karmarkar; Raghu Krishnamurthy; Saurabh R. Godbole; Ming Xu; Vikas K. Gupta; Deepak Tawri
Priority:
05/12/03
Filed:
05/12/03
Granted:
03/13/07
Expiration:
04/15/19
Abstract
A method and system of providing periodic replication is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided which comprises creating a storage object corresponding to a data volume, wherein the storage object comprises a point-in-time copy of the data volume and a data volume map; and replicating the data volume utilizing the storage object.