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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2003
Sam Clark Werner, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Frank Micka, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sivan Tal, Yokneam Illit, IL;
Ifat Nuriel, Haifa, IL;
Sheli Rahav, Haifa, IL;
Gail Andrea Spear, Tucson, AZ (US);
Warren K. Stanley, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sam Clark Werner, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Frank Micka, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sivan Tal, Yokneam Illit, IL;
Ifat Nuriel, Haifa, IL;
Sheli Rahav, Haifa, IL;
Gail Andrea Spear, Tucson, AZ (US);
Warren K. Stanley, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for copying storage. Copy operations are performed on source storage units to copy to target storage units, wherein the copy operations create a consistent copy of the source storage units in the target storage units. While performing a copy operation to copy from one source storage unit to one target storage unit, a write operation is restricted from being performed on the one source storage unit, until the copy operations have been performed on the source storage units.