Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-28
2006-02-28
Peikari, B. James (Department: 2189)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C711S156000, C711S161000, C711S162000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C714S001000, C714S002000, C714S006130
Reexamination Certificate
active
07007044
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed toward the resumption of a journaling process in a data management appliance after a period of unavailability. The data management appliance is a random-access storage system that at the logical block level replicates the contents of a primary storage system over time. A small “dirty extent map” is established on the primary storage device. The dirty extent map keeps track of which portions of primary storage are written to while journaling is interrupted. When journaling is resumed, the contents of the dirty extents are compared to the latest replica of the primary storage to identify the differences. These differences are then journaled as if they were write commands. Meanwhile, new write commands are also journaled by the data management appliance. Once the differences of all of the dirty extents have been journaled, the data management appliance may resume normal journaling operation.
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“Schedule Program Diskette File Structure”. IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, Jan. 1, 1987, vol. 29, issue 8, pp. 3508-3511.
Abramovitz Michael Paul
Martin Marcia R.
Rafert James Lee
Peikari B. James
Storage Technology Corporation
Yee & Associates P.C.
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