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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2013
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Geeta Gharpure, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Taher M. Vohra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for providing instant disaster recovery are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for providing instant disaster recovery comprising, maintaining, in a data store, data associated with a first host system, wherein the data comprises a first data portion and a second data portion, storing, in the first data portion, a disaster recovery agent, and exposing, to a second host system, the first data portion and the second data portion, wherein the disaster recovery agent is configured to initiate, on the second host system, a disaster recovery process, boot the second host system using the first data portion, and copy, from the data store, the second data portion in accordance with a first copy procedure and a second copy procedure.