Tape emulating disk based storage system and method

Details Tape emulating disk based storage system and method Tape emulating disk based storage system and method

2005-08-30

2008-10-28

Elmore, Reba I (Department: 2189)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Specific memory composition

C711S162000, C711S170000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07444465

ABSTRACT:
A data protection and storage system includes an array of disk drives for data storage. Data is received for storage on the disk drive via an interface that is configured to emulate a tape drive interface. A virtual tape data structure is created and stored on the disk drives. The data structure includes entry tables that form a linked list where each contain links to other entry tables and information defining data storage sectors allocated to records associates a virtual tape.

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