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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2006
Masahiro Yamada, Yokohama, JP;
Toshihiko Fukuda, Yokohama, JP;
Masahiro Yamada, Yokohama, JP;
Toshihiko Fukuda, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention allows notification of information held by a first computer to a second computer even if the first computer and the second computer are not communicably connected. The first serversends information which is used when the second server ii backs up (hereafter called catalog information) to the first storage system. The first storage systemconverts the received catalog information into an electronic file having a predetermined file name and writes it to the PVOL, and writes the data group including the catalog information in the PVOLto the SVOLin the second storage system. The second server II acquires the catalog information from the SVOLby searching the predetermined file name in the SVOL, and backs up the data in the SVOLusing the acquired catalog information.