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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2006
Applicant:
Collin Y. Park, Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Collin Y. Park, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Use of data images to allow release of unneeded data storage. An embodiment of a method includes generating a series of archives of a set of data, each archive of the series of archives being stored in a data storage. The method further includes releasing an older archive in the series of archives from the data storage after a new archive in the series of archives is generated. A point-in-time image of the data storage is generated after each new archive in the series of archives is generated, with the data captured by the image including data contained in the new archive.