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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Clint A. Hardy, Tucson, AZ (US);
Nicolas M. Clayton, Warrington, GB;
Yang Liu, Pudong, CN;
Gail Spear, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A determination is made that a point-in-time copy of a consistency group of a production volume has to be stored in a backup storage that is configured to store a plurality of point-in-time copies generated at a plurality of time instants. An extent of a thin provisioned volume of a highest storage tier of a tiered storage is allocated to store the point-in-time copy of the consistency group. A process is initiated for storing the point-in-time copy of the consistency group to the extent of the highest storage tier of the tiered storage.