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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2006
Michael Lewin, Modiin, IL;
Yair Heller, Tel Aviv, IL;
Ziv Kedem, Tel Aviv, IL;
Shlomo Ahal, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Assaf Natanzon, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Avi Shoshan, Kfar-Shemuel, IL;
Evgeny Drukh, Rehovot, IL;
Efrat Angel, Rehovot, IL;
Oded Weber, Qiriat-Ono, IL;
Michael Lewin, Modiin, IL;
Yair Heller, Tel Aviv, IL;
Ziv Kedem, Tel Aviv, IL;
Shlomo Ahal, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Assaf Natanzon, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Avi Shoshan, Kfar-Shemuel, IL;
Evgeny Drukh, Rehovot, IL;
Efrat Angel, Rehovot, IL;
Oded Weber, Qiriat-Ono, IL;
EMC Israel Development Center, Ltd., Netanya, IL;
Abstract
Methods and systems for accessing data from a previous point in time, including receiving data stored in a storage system of addressable memory, the storage system including a plurality of addresses, receiving a journal history of write transactions for the storage, each write transaction including (i) a plurality of designated memory addresses, (ii) a corresponding plurality of current data to write in the designated memory addresses for storage, and (iii) a time indicator, generating a data structure that represents a virtual interface to the storage at a specified point in time, based on the write transactions in the journal history having a time subsequent to the specified point in time, and enabling a user to process the data from the specified point in time, via the virtual interface and the journal history.