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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2007
Ranjit Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ranjit Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a system and method for extending the functionality of tape device tapemarks. When data is backed up to tape, the tape controller may mark the tape with a tapemark to organize portions of the tape. Present tape storage devices are limited to a single type of tapemark; therefore current recovery requests require knowledge of the tapemark location. The present invention allows for unique types of tapemarks. By allowing the tape device, tape controller and/or backup and recovery software to recognize unique tapemarks, data organized by unique tapemarks can be recovered without referencing tapemark location, thereby optimizing recovery. Unique tapemarks may be encrypted such that data recovery is only completed upon verification of the requester.