Tertiary storage unit management in bidirectional data copying

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10146472
APP PUB NO 20170052710A1
SERIAL NO

15341942

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In one embodiment of the present description, mirroring is provided for a pair of storage units in bidirectional synchronous mirror relationships, and a tertiary storage unit. The mirroring includes multi-target mirroring to write updates written to the first storage unit to both the second storage unit and to a third storage unit. Similarly, for updates written to the second storage unit, multi-target mirroring is employed to write those to both the first storage unit and to the third storage unit. Other aspects are described.

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  • IBM CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Brown, Theresa M Tucson, US 114 950
Clayton, Nicolas M Warrington, GB 51 280
Harris,, Jr Theodore T Tucson, US 47 359
McBride, Gregory E Vail, US 148 1114
Mellgren, Carol S Tucson, US 115 790
Stanley, Warren K Loveland, US 58 615

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