Restoring virtual devices

Details Restoring virtual devices Restoring virtual devices

2007-09-04

2007-09-04

Cottingham, John (Department: 2167)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10306659

ABSTRACT:
Restoring data includes providing data in a first storage area that contains sections of data, providing data in a second storage area where the second type has, for each section of data thereof, at least one of: a pointer to a corresponding section of data of the first storage area and a pointer to corresponding section of data of a third storage area of the first type. In one embodiment, a sections of the first storage area are replaced with pointers to the third storage area. In other embodiments, sections of a fourth storage area of the first type are replaced with pointers to the third storage area and optionally with pointers to the first storage area. In another embodiment, data is copied from the second storage area to a third storage area of the second type.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5475608 (1995-12-01), Masuoka
patent: 5784698 (1998-07-01), Brady et al.
patent: 5819292 (1998-10-01), Hitz et al.
patent: 5915264 (1999-06-01), White et al.
patent: 6038639 (2000-03-01), O'Brien et al.
patent: 6076148 (2000-06-01), Kedem
patent: 6226759 (2001-05-01), Miller et al.
patent: 6434681 (2002-08-01), Armangau
patent: 6446176 (2002-09-01), West et al.
patent: 6460054 (2002-10-01), Grummon
patent: 6574709 (2003-06-01), Skazinski et al.
patent: 6715050 (2004-03-01), Williams et al.
patent: 6772302 (2004-08-01), Thompson
patent: 6880102 (2005-04-01), Bridge
patent: 6920537 (2005-07-01), Ofek et al.
patent: 2002/0053009 (2002-05-01), Selkirk et al.
patent: 2002/0156975 (2002-10-01), Staub et al.
patent: 2003/0005256 (2003-01-01), Grossman et al.
patent: 2003/0097611 (2003-05-01), Delaney et al.
patent: 2003/0140070 (2003-07-01), Kaczmarski et al.
patent: 2003/0158834 (2003-08-01), Sawdon et al.
patent: 2003/0182312 (2003-09-01), Chen et al.
patent: 2004/0139125 (2004-07-01), Strassburg et al.
Hitz,Dave et al “File System Design for an NFS File Server Appliance”, NetworkAppliance, USENIX 1994.
Siddha, S.B. and K. Gopinath “ A Persistent Snapshot Device Driver for Linux”, Procededings of the 5th Annual Showcase and Conference, Nov. 5-10, 2001.
U.S. Appl. No. 10/134,420, filed Apr. 29, 2002.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Restoring virtual devices does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Restoring virtual devices, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Restoring virtual devices will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-3768050