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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:
Aug. 23, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 22, 2019
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Douglas E. LeCrone, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Paul A. Linstead, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4856 (2013.01); G06F 3/0617 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 11/1415 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

Cloning a running computing system includes quiescing processes running on a source computing system, saving state data of the source computing system, configuring a target computing system using the state data from the source computing system, and resuming program execution at the source computing system and the target computing system. Quiescing processes running on the source computing system may include marking all of the processes on the source computing system as non-dispatchable. All external resources may be identified for the source computing system prior to quiescing processes running on a source computing system. The external resources may include devices and files. The target computing system may access data that is also accessed by the source computing system. Data accessed by the source computing system may be cloned for access by the target computing system prior to resuming program execution. The data may be cloned using snapshot copies.


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