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Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2014
Applicant:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN;

Inventor:

Yansong Li, Shenzhen, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/30 (2013.01); G06F 11/1438 (2013.01); G06F 11/1461 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for backing up data in a case of a power failure of a storage system including: when a power failure is detected, acquiring current refresh progress of a buffer in a storage system, an address, in the buffer, of data that is in the buffer and needs to be backed up to a non-volatile memory in the storage system, and a first time required for backing up the data; calculating, according to the current refresh progress of the buffer and the address of the data in the buffer, a second time for which the data can at least keep being not lost since a last refresh; and stopping refreshing the buffer, and backing up the data to the non-volatile memory, if the second time is greater than the first time.


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