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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2006
Haim Bitner, Raanana, IL;
Samuel Krikler, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Shay Akirav, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Shira Bash, Westen Galilee, IL;
Elena Drobchenko, Raanana, IL;
Haim Bitner, Raanana, IL;
Samuel Krikler, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Shay Akirav, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Shira Bash, Westen Galilee, IL;
Elena Drobchenko, Raanana, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A Virtual Tape (VT) server residing on a network is connectible on its front end to a plurality of heterogeneous backup hosts, with different operating systems and/or backup applications, and on its back end to one or more disk storage devices in an open systems environment. The VT server responds to tape storage commands sent by the backup host as if it were the intended tape storage device and then emulates the desired tape storage activity on the one or more disk storage devices. In a described implementation, the host and server act as SCSI initiator and target and communicate over a Fibre Channel connection.