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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2008
Tarek Makansi, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregory Edward Mcbride, Tucson, AZ (US);
David Michael Shackelford, Tucson, AZ (US);
Tarek Makansi, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregory Edward McBride, Tucson, AZ (US);
David Michael Shackelford, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a system and article of manufacture for maintaining data in a distributed computing environment. Data is stored at a primary storage site. A data structure is processed indicating an association of data sets in the stored data, secondary storage sites, and update frequencies. In response to processing the data structure, a determination is made of one of a plurality of secondary storage sites and a determination is made of at least one data set to transmit to the determined secondary storage site at an update frequency. The determined data set is transmitted to the determined secondary storage site according to the update frequency.