
US Patent No: 7,340,461
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Deactivating virtual devices and rolling backup
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Mar 4, 2008
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Nov 27, 2002
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10/306,268
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Abstract
Handling data includes providing a first storage area of a first type that contains sections of data, providing a second storage area of the first type that contains sections of data, providing a third storage area of a second type where the second type has, for each section thereof, a pointer to one of: a corresponding section of data of the first storage area and a corresponding section of data of the second storage area, causing the third storage area to be not available for accessing, and after causing the third storage area to not be available for accessing, providing data from the second storage area corresponding to pointers of the third storage area that point to sections of the second storage area.
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| 7,249,130 Virtual storage devices | 2 | 2002 | |
| 7,266,572 Restoring virtual devices | 2 | 2002 | |
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| 5,819,292 Method for maintaining consistent states of a file system and for creating user-accessible read-only copies of a file system | 604 | 1995 | |
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| 5,915,264 System for providing write notification during data set copy | 32 | 1997 | |
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