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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
May. 13, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
David A. Brettell, Vail, AZ (US);
Vanessa R. Earle, Tucson, AZ (US);
Alan J. Fisher, Tucson, AZ (US);
Duke A. Lee, Tucson, AZ (US);
Joseph M. Swingler, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method according to one embodiment includes copying data incoming to and/or generated at a production site to a copy cluster at a remote copy site, thereby creating a redundant copy of the data at the copy cluster. When the copy cluster becomes unavailable, data incoming to and/or generated at the production site is copied to a backup reserve site after the copy cluster becomes unavailable. Additional systems, methods, and computer programs products are also presented.