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Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2008

Filed:

Feb. 04, 2004
Applicants:

Roger Keith Stager, Livermore, CA (US);

Donald Alvin Trimmer, Livermore, CA (US);

Pawan Saxena, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Randall Johnson, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);

Craig Anthony Johnston, Livermore, CA (US);

Yafen Peggy Chang, Fremont, CA (US);

Rico Blaser, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Roger Keith Stager, Livermore, CA (US);

Donald Alvin Trimmer, Livermore, CA (US);

Pawan Saxena, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Randall Johnson, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);

Craig Anthony Johnston, Livermore, CA (US);

Yafen Peggy Chang, Fremont, CA (US);

Rico Blaser, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system wherein data is structured so that writes may be continuously duplicated and a protected volume may be restored to a particular point in time as desired. Writes are continuously duplicated on a secondary volume and organized into delta maps. The delta maps indicate which memory blocks were written to during a particular time frame.


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