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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2012
Applicants:
Ofer Elrom, Gilboa, IL;
Eran Raichstein, Yokneam Ilit, IL;
Gregory John Tevis, Tucson, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method according to one embodiment includes receiving, at an I/O Handler, an instruction to initiate a backup operation on data associated with an application running on multiple servers; and stretching communication between instances of the application and data storage volumes associated therewith during initiating the backup operation. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are also disclosed.