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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 21, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Paul M. Cadarette, Hemet, CA (US);

Martin W. J. Cocks, Hursley, GB;

Scott K. S. Singleton, San Jose, CA (US);

John S. Tilling, Chandlers Ford, GB;

Austin J. Willoughby, Voorheesville, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/25 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 16/2358 (2019.01); G06F 16/258 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/284 (2019.01);
Abstract

A mechanism is provided for replicating non-supported data types using an existing replication format supported by an existing replication system. Responsive to detecting an application writing data to a local storage that is to be replicated to the secondary site, the input/output (I/O) operation being performed by the application is intercepted. Data of the I/O operation in a non-supported format is converted to a format supported by the existing replication system. A replication log record is generated for the data in the format supported by the existing replication system. The data described by the replication log record for the data is then stored in a storage device at the secondary site.


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