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Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2009
Applicants:

Ludmila Cherkasova, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Roger K T Lau, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Harald Burose, Gaufelden, DE;

Bernhard Kappler, Herrenberg BW, DE;

Inventors:

Ludmila Cherkasova, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Roger K T Lau, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Harald Burose, Gaufelden, DE;

Bernhard Kappler, Herrenberg BW, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, a tangible non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and a tape library for backing up filesystems are provided. Historic job durations to back up data to a storage device are obtained. Objects to be backed up to multiple drives in the storage device are ordered based on the job durations. The objects are assigned to agents based on priorities that first back up an object having a longest job duration. The objects are backed up with the agents to the multiple drives according to the priorities.


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