International Business Machines Corporation

Imran Imtiaz

Miles Mulholland

Anuj Chandra

James William Walker

David Nigel Mackintosh

A remote copy relationship is maintained between a local computational device and a remote computational device for a first storage volume and a second storage volume. The local computational device transmits information to the remote computational device, wherein the information indicates that there are no deduplication matches between the first storage volume and the second storage volume in the local computational device, and wherein the remote computational device is configured to avoid scanning for deduplication matches between a remote copy of the first storage volume and a remote copy of the second storage volume based on the information that is transmitted.

Limiting deduplication search domains

A method, system, computer program product and computer program for managing a storage system, comprising a primary system and a backup system, wherein the backup system is in a copy relationship with the primary system, comprising: in response to a write operation, the write operation comprising first data: calculating a cryptographic value for the first data; scanning a first directory to identify an entry corresponding to the cryptographic value to determine a first set of addresses associated with the write operation; transmitting the first set of addresses to the backup system; and updating the first directory with a first entry for the write operation, the first entry comprising a pointer to the first set of addresses; updating a second directory with a second entry for the write operation, the second entry comprising a pointer to a second set of addresses corresponding to the first set of addresses.

Optimizing deduplication hit-rate in a remote copy environment

A method for attesting use of an interactive component during a boot process, comprising the steps of: reading, in response to determining use of the interactive component, associated interactive input; determining whether the input should be trusted; and in response to determining that the input should be trusted, processing the input to create a trusted cryptographic value, further comprising: matching, in response to a subsequent interactive input being read, the subsequent interactive input with one or more of the trusted cryptographic values in order to determine whether the subsequent interactive input is trusted.

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