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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2017
Infortrend Technology, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Michael Gordon Schnapp, New Taipei, TW;
Ching-Hua Fang, Taipei, TW;
INFORTREND TECHNOLOGY, INC., New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A method for remote asynchronous volume replication and apparatus therefor. Asynchronous replication is applied to handle data changes on the source volume on the local site incurred by Host IO requests. In coordination with the 'point-in-time differential backup' technology, the original data in the block to be written by a host IO request will be backuped to Source BAS on the local site (backup-on-write operation) only when the original data being written into the block of the source volume is different from the data of the corresponding block of the destination volume on the remote site. As a result, once a new data is written into the source volume completely, the host will be responded that its Host IO request is completed. Therefore, the data necessarily transmitted to the destination volume can be minimized, and the problem of remote data transmission limited by network bandwidth can be prevented effectively.