Quest Software Inc.

Dell Software Inc.

Bakbone Software, Inc.

Daniel J Fraisl

Siew Sim-Tang

Anthony N Hoeber

A data management system that protects data into a continuous object store includes a management interface having a time control. The time control allows an administrator to specify a 'past' time, such as a single point or range. When the time control is set to a single point, a hierarchical display of data appears on a display exactly as the data existed in the system at that moment in the past. The time control enables the management interface to operate within a history mode in which the display provides a visual representation of a 'virtual' point in time in the past during which the data management system has been operative to provide the data protection service.

Management interface for a system that provides automated, real-time, continuous data protection

A data management system or 'DMS' provides a wide range of data services to data sources associated with a set of application host servers. The data management system typically comprises one or more regions, with each region having one or more clusters. A given cluster has one or more nodes that share storage. To facilitate the data service, a host driver embedded in an application server connects an application and its data to a cluster. The host driver provides a method and apparatus for capturing real-time data transactions in the form of an event journal that is provided to the data management system. The driver functions to translate traditional file/database/block I/O into a continuous, application-aware, output data stream. Using the streams generated in this manner, the DMS offers a wide range of data services that include, by way of example only: data protection (and recovery), disaster recovery (data distribution and data replication), data copy, and data query and access.

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Daniel J Fraisl