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Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 02, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Theresa M. Brown, Tucson, AZ (US);

Nicolas M. Clayton, Warrington, GB;

Theodore T. Harris, Jr., Tucson, AZ (US);

Gregory E. McBride, Vail, AZ (US);

Carol S. Mellgren, Tucson, AZ (US);

Warren K. Stanley, Loveland, CO (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 11/2058 (2013.01); G06F 11/2079 (2013.01); G06F 11/2076 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment of the present description, mirroring is provided for a pair of storage units in bidirectional synchronous mirror relationships, and a tertiary storage unit. The mirroring includes multi-target mirroring to write updates written to the first storage unit to both the second storage unit and to a third storage unit. Similarly, for updates written to the second storage unit, multi-target mirroring is employed to write those to both the first storage unit and to the third storage unit. Other aspects are described.


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