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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2012
Xue Dong Gao, Shanghai, CN;
Roah Jishi, San Diego, CA (US);
David Ray Kahler, Tucson, AZ (US);
Keith Geoffrey Morrison, San Jose, CA (US);
Karl Allen Nielsen, Tucson, AZ (US);
Micah Robison, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jeremy Leigh Royall, Austin, TX (US);
Xue Dong Gao, Shanghai, CN;
Roah Jishi, San Diego, CA (US);
David Ray Kahler, Tucson, AZ (US);
Keith Geoffrey Morrison, San Jose, CA (US);
Karl Allen Nielsen, Tucson, AZ (US);
Micah Robison, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jeremy Leigh Royall, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
For preventing data loss in storage systems a detection is made that a storage device in a plurality of storage devices is experiencing a malfunction. The type of malfunction is determined. A SMART rebuilding technique, a normal building technique, a data migration technique, or a user data backup technique is selected to preserve the data in the storage device based on the determined type of the malfunction. The selected technique is performed on the storage device.