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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Matthew J. Anglin, Tucson, AZ (US);
David M. Cannon, Tucson, AZ (US);
Ken Eugene Hannigan, Tucson, AZ (US);
Kevin Patrick Hoyt, San Jose, CA (US);
Erick Christian Kissel, Tucson, AZ (US);
Howard N. Martin, Vail, AZ (US);
Michael Harry Segapeli, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are techniques for managing backup operations from a client system to a primary server and secondary server. A determination is made at the client system of whether a state of the data on the secondary server permits a backup operation in response to determining that the primary server is unavailable when a force failover parameter is not set. The client system reattempts to connect to the primary server to perform the backup operation at the primary server in response to determining that the state of the data on the secondary server does not permit the backup operation. The client system performs the backup operation at the secondary server in response to determining that the state of the secondary server permits the backup operation.