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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2007
Matthew Charles Compton, Tucson, AZ (US);
Stefan Lehmann, Tucson, AZ (US);
Matthew Charles Compton, Tucson, AZ (US);
Stefan Lehmann, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method to archive log entries created by a data storage system comprising a first memory and a library log encoded in that first memory, wherein the first memory comprises a storage capacity, and wherein the method writes a plurality of log entries to the library log, wherein each log entry comprises a log entry time. At a time T, the method copies to a log archive the plurality of log entries written to the library log, and sets a subsequent retrieval time based upon a time Twhen an earliest log entry was written to the library log, and a time Twhen a latest log entry was written to the library log.