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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gregory L. Wade, San Jose, CA (US);
J. Mitchell Haile, Somerville, MA (US);
Assignee:
Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30578 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0643 (2013.01); G06F 3/0671 (2013.01); G06F 17/30073 (2013.01); G06F 17/30309 (2013.01); G06F 17/30377 (2013.01);
Abstract
Responsive to an instruction to collapse a derivative version of an ancestor data volume into the ancestor data volume, it is determined if a characteristic of the derivative version of the ancestor data volume satisfies a criteria relative to a characteristic of the ancestor data volume. If the characteristic of the derivative version satisfies the criteria, the ancestor data volume is merged into the derivative version of the underlying data to form an updated derivative version. The updated derivative version is established as the ancestor data volume.