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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2009
David Jevans, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gil Spencer, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David Jevans, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gil Spencer, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Imation Corp., Oakdale, MN (US);
Abstract
A system and method for protecting against corruption of data stored in a peripheral storage device. The peripheral storage device is communicatively coupled with a host computer. The peripheral storage device includes at least memory and a controller. Data from the host computer is stored to a first portion of the peripheral storage device memory. The controller backs up some or all of the data to a second portion of the data to a second portion of the peripheral storage device memory. The controller restores some or all of the data from the second portion of the peripheral storage device memory to the first portion of the peripheral storage device memory.