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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2008
Thomas Schlender, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Brian Boehm, Oakdale, MN (US);
Thomas Schlender, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Brian Boehm, Oakdale, MN (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing access to backup data on an archival storage system through storage media servers are described. In some examples, read operations are initiated. Each of the read operations is targeted to a respective plurality of the media servers specific for reading backup data from the archival storage system. Each read operation is delegated to each of its respective plurality of media servers until one of the respective plurality of media servers is available. The backup data specified by each read operation is read by the one media server of the respective plurality of media servers that is available. Each read operation may comprise a backup restoration, backup duplication, backup verification, or synthetic backup operation. Read operations can be targeted to a first and second plurality of media servers, which may be mutually exclusive. The archival storage system can be a tape storage system.