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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2009
Alan Stuart Driscoll, Fremont, CA (US);
Peter Frank Corbett, Lexington, MA (US);
Toby Smith, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Devang K. Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
Srishylam Simharajan, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Keith Allen Arner, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Joe Warren Dukes, Jr., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Alan Stuart Driscoll, Fremont, CA (US);
Peter Frank Corbett, Lexington, MA (US);
Toby Smith, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Devang K. Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
Srishylam Simharajan, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Keith Allen Arner, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Joe Warren Dukes, Jr., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A replication operation service migrates data from a source volume having a source file system type to a destination volume having a destination file system type, where the source file system type may be different from the destination file system type. The replication operation is completed without interrupting the operations of a client device in the system. A stable copy of the source file system is generated on the source volume. A file system agnostic representation of a portion of the data in the source volume is generated from the stable copy. The representation is transmitted to the destination volume where it is converted to conform to the destination file system type.