Computer and associated method for restoring data backed up on a

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1996-12-03

1999-07-20

Gossage, Glenn

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Control technique

39518204, G06F 1216, G06F 1300, G06F 1108

Patent

active

059268360

ABSTRACT:
A computer having restore capabilities for data backed up on archive media, the computer including a restore application which identifies the target data to be restored from the archive media and makes logical user read and write requests, an interpreter that does logical to physical mapping and maps logical user read and write requests to physical block level read and write requests, a host storage driver having a disk driver interface for receiving block level read and write requests from the interpreter, a host storage disk connected to be controlled by the host storage driver, and a restore system having a disk driver interface to the interpreter for receiving block level read requests from the interpreter, the restore system issuing instructions to read data from archive media at a block, physical level and returning the data obtained from the archive media to the interpreter.

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