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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2010
Applicants:
Ofer Elrom, Gilboa, IL;
Eran Raichstein, Yokneam Ilit, IL;
Gregory J. Tevis, Tucson, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system according to one embodiment includes at least one processor configured to: receive a request to perform a snapshot of data associated with an application running on multiple servers; instruct I/O Freezers on different servers to freeze data requests from instances of the application running on the servers; and instruct the I/O Freezers to initiate snapshot processing on the data associated with the application so that the I/O Freezers perform the snapshot processing within the same window of synchronization.