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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2006
Peter L. Smoot, San Jose, CA (US);
Barry P. Schwartz, San Jose, CA (US);
Nagender Somavarapu, Bangalore, IN;
Brian M. Hackworth, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin B. Swartzlander, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter L. Smoot, San Jose, CA (US);
Barry P. Schwartz, San Jose, CA (US);
Nagender Somavarapu, Bangalore, IN;
Brian M. Hackworth, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin B. Swartzlander, San Jose, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A monitoring server remotely communicates with a storage server in order to monitor utilization of storage space of a write out-of-place file system on the storage server, the file system including a persistent point-in-time image (PPI) of its active file system, the PPI including at least part of the active file system, but does not duplicate said part of the active file system.