Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Control technique
Patent
1997-03-17
2000-03-28
Thai, Tuan V.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Control technique
710 1, 711161, 714 5, 714 6, 714718, 714763, G06F 1216
Patent
active
060444444
ABSTRACT:
Two data storage systems are interconnected by a data link for remote mirroring of data. Each volume of data is configured as local, primary in a remotely mirrored volume pair, or secondary in a remotely mirrored volume pair. Normally, a host computer directly accesses either a local or a primary volume, and data written to a primary volume is automatically sent over the link to a corresponding secondary volume. Each remotely mirrored volume pair can operate in a selected synchronization mode including synchronous, semi-synchronous, adaptive copy--remote write pending, and adaptive copy--disk. A number of automatic and non-automatic recovery mechanisms are provided on a logical volume basis for a desired level of data integrity and degree of operator or application program involvement. If a "volume domino" mode is enabled for a remotely mirrored volume pair, access to a volume of the pair is denied when the other volume is inaccessible. In a "links domino" mode, access to all remotely mirrored volumes is denied when remote mirroring is disrupted by an all-links failure. The domino modes can be used to initiate application-based recovery, for example, recovering a secondary data file using a secondary log file. In an overwrite cache mode, remote write-pending data in cache can be overwritten. In a "log-in-cache" mode, multiple versions of write data can be stored in cache in order to recover from a "rolling disaster".
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