Method, system, and program for remote copy in an open systems environment

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6526419
SERIAL NO

09591016

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Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structure for providing a shadow copy of data storage areas in a primary site to data storage areas in a secondary site. A definition is made of storage areas in the primary site having data to be shadowed and corresponding storage areas in the secondary site to shadow data at the storage areas in the primary site. A shadow pair comprises one primary storage area and one secondary storage area that shadows data for the primary storage area in the pair. A standard data transfer interface protocol command, such as a SCSI or Fibre Channel command, is used to configure status storage areas in the secondary site to provide status information and data for each primary and secondary storage area. A write command in the standard data transfer interface protocol is then used to write status information to the status storage areas indicating status of the shadowed data at the secondary storage areas in the pairs.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Burton, David Alan Vail, AZ 53 1843
Morton, Robert Louis Tucson, AZ 32 1485
Webman, Erez Petach-Tikva, IL 31 1494

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