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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2006
Surender V. Brahmaroutu, Round Rock, TX (US);
Eric Endebrock, Round Rock, TX (US);
Surender V. Brahmaroutu, Round Rock, TX (US);
Eric Endebrock, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
For backing up of data from a source to a destination, a virtual tape library (VTL) appliance intercepts a message for backing up the data. In response to the intercepted message, the VTL appliance sends a command to initiate the backing up of the data. A network attached storage (NAS) server, which is the source of the data and is coupled to the VTL appliance by a network, receives the command. An agent located in the NAS server is triggered in response to the command to directly transfer the data from the source to the destination. The agent informs the VTL appliance upon completion of the transfer of the data.