Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Ranji Balasubramanian

Dilip Naik

Edward D McClanahan

Borislav Marinov

In at least some disclosed embodiments, a method includes a) creating a first stub file on a target file server, b) creating a t-stub file at the location of the source directory, c) disabling performance of operations on the source data while allowing completion of operations in progress, d) copying the source data into a hidden directory on the target file server, thus creating target data, e) overwriting the first stub file by renaming the target data, f) enabling performance of operations on the target data, g) performing queued operations on the target data, and h) deleting the source data from the source file server.

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Campbell, CA, United States of America

Ranji Balasubramanian