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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
May. 01, 2020
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Xiangping Chen, Sherborn, MA (US);
David Meiri, Somerville, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided, comprising: receiving, at a source system, a first copy instruction, the first copy instruction being associated with a token that represents one or more data items, the first copy instruction instructing the source system to copy the one or more data items from a first volume to a second volume; in response to the first copy instruction, retrieving one or more hash digests from a snapshot that is associated with the token, each of the one or more hash digests being associated with a different one of the one or more data items; and transmitting, to a target system, a second copy instruction that is associated with the one or more hash digests, the second copy instruction instructing the target system to copy the one or more data items to a replica of the second volume that is stored at the target system.