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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2007
Applicants:
Shlomo Ahal, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Assaf Natanzon, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Inventors:
Shlomo Ahal, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Assaf Natanzon, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Assignee:
EMC (Benelux) B.V., S.A.R.L., , LU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Method and apparatus to dynamically add storage for a journal in a continuous data protection system. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes storing a plurality of journal data streams for a journal in a continuous data protection system in first storage, where streams in the journal data streams contain linked lists of data blocks, determining when the first storage exceeds a selected fullness threshold, allocating second storage for the journal in addition to the first storage, and storing data for the journal in the second storage.