Symantec Corporation

Srikant Sharma

Taher Vohra

Gopal Sharma

Abhay Kumar Singh

Dharmesh Shah

Robert Warren Perry

Sameer Majahan

Grizel Lopez

A method and apparatus for enabling and managing application input/output activity in memory to restore a data store using one or more processors is disclosed. In one embodiments, the method includes processing a restoration request for a data store, wherein the data store is mirrored by another data store, controlling communication of application input/output activity associated with at least one host computer and directed to at least one of the data store or the other data store, restoring various portions of the data store, in accordance with the restoration request, using at least one of at least one prior point in time image or the other data store and servicing the application input/output activity using the data store.

Method and apparatus for enabling and managing application input/output activity while restoring a data store

A method and apparatus for synchronizing time within a data protection system is described. In one embodiment, the method includes processing input/output activity information associated with at least one client computer, wherein the input/output activity information comprises at least one local client timestamp, determining at least one server timestamp for the at least one local client timestamp and modifying the input/output activity information with the at least one server timestamp.

Method and apparatus for providing time synchronization in a data protection system

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