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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2002
Natan Vishlitzky, Brookline, MA (US);
Hana Moreshet, Framingham, MA (US);
Haim Kopylovitz, Newton, MA (US);
Bruce A. Pocock, Titusville, FL (US);
Douglas E. Lecrone, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Natan Vishlitzky, Brookline, MA (US);
Hana Moreshet, Framingham, MA (US);
Haim Kopylovitz, Newton, MA (US);
Bruce A. Pocock, Titusville, FL (US);
Douglas E. LeCrone, Hopkinton, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Restoring data includes providing data in a first storage area that contains sections of data, providing data in a second storage area where the second type has, for each section of data thereof, at least one of: a pointer to a corresponding section of data of the first storage area and a pointer to corresponding section of data of a third storage area of the first type. In one embodiment, a sections of the first storage area are replaced with pointers to the third storage area. In other embodiments, sections of a fourth storage area of the first type are replaced with pointers to the third storage area and optionally with pointers to the first storage area. In another embodiment, data is copied from the second storage area to a third storage area of the second type.