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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2012
Applicant:

Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Philip Derbeko, Modiin, IL;

Zvi Gabriel Benhanokh, Tel Aviv, IL;

Anat Eyal, Tel Aviv, IL;

Arieh Don, Newton, MA (US);

Alex Veprinsky, Brookline, MA (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving an indication that a hard disk drive within a data array is failing, thus defining a failing hard disk drive. At least a portion of the data included within the failing hard disk drive is copied to a failover portion of a front end cache system included within a host coupled to the data array, thus defining a backup data set.


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