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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2009
Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rushi Srinivas Surla, Bangalore, IN;
Vasantha Prabhu, Kamataka, IN;
Gaurab Paul, Kamataka, IN;
Ritesh Tiwari, Kamataka, IN;
Boris Teterin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rushi Srinivas Surla, Bangalore, IN;
Vasantha Prabhu, Kamataka, IN;
Gaurab Paul, Kamataka, IN;
Ritesh Tiwari, Kamataka, IN;
Boris Teterin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
According to one or more of the provisions set forth herein, data can be managed in a data storage system in an efficient manner. In one example, a first flexible copy volume of data is generated based on a snapshot copy volume of a flexible volume containing the data. The first flexible copy volume is configured to be operated upon according to a first set of operations. A second flexible copy of the data is also generated based on the snapshot copy volume. The second flexible copy volume is configured to be operated upon according to a second set of operations that differs from the first set of operations. Having a second copy of the data allows testing or other operations to be performed on the data while also maintaining an original version of the data.