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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2005
Robert Frederic Kern, Otter Rock, OR (US);
Gail Andrea Spear, Tucson, AZ (US);
David B. Petersen, Great Falls, VA (US);
Gregory Edward Mcbride, Vail, AZ (US);
Robert Frederic Kern, Otter Rock, OR (US);
Gail Andrea Spear, Tucson, AZ (US);
David B. Petersen, Great Falls, VA (US);
Gregory Edward McBride, Vail, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system and program from for managing failures in a mirrored system. A copy relationship between primary and secondary storage locations, wherein updates to the primary storage locations are copied to the secondary storage locations. A failure is detected preventing an application from writing updates to the primary storage locations. A failure message is received for the application in response to detecting the failure, wherein the failure message is not provided to the application. The copying of updates to the primary storage locations to the secondary storage locations is suspended. The failure message is provided to the application in response to suspending the copying.