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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:
Nov. 03, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Martin Oberhofer, Boeblingen, DE;

Michail Tausch, Ehningen, DE;

Andreas Trinks, Stuttgart, DE;

Andreas Uhl, Boeblingen, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/16 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 11/1441 (2013.01); G06F 11/1666 (2013.01); G06F 11/20 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to a computer implemented method for creating a backup of data by a computer system. The creation of the backup comprises: assigning a first memory space in a main memory to data and loading the data into the first memory space; allocating a second memory space in the main memory for acting as container of one or more images of the data in the first memory space; creating the one or more images of the data in the first memory space; and storing the created one or more images in the second memory space and storing a respective copy of at least one of the one or more images in the one or more non-volatile storage media.


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