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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Itzhack Goldberg, Hadera, IL;
Michael Keller, Tel Aviv, IL;
Moriel Lechtman, Haifa, IL;
Orit Nissan-Messing, Hod HaSharon, IL;
Eliyahu Weissbrem, Rehovot, IL;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include conveying first data from local regions of a local volume of a local storage system to a remote storage system having a remote volume with remote regions in a one-to-one correspondence with the local regions. While conveying the first data, a request is received to update a given local region, and the given local region is marked. Subsequent to conveying the first data, a local snapshot referencing the local regions is created, and second data is conveyed from the marked local region to the remote storage system.