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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2014
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Joseph W. Dain, Vail, AZ (US);
Gregory T. Kishi, Oro Valley, AZ (US);
Osnat Shasha, Holon, IL;
Christopher Zaremba, Endicott, NY (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); G06F 11/1435 (2013.01); G06F 11/1448 (2013.01); G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 11/1458 (2013.01); G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 2201/82 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract
A collision is avoided between a new Flashcopy backup and an existing Flashcopy target volume containing an older Flashcopy backup being ingested during one of a mount operation, a restore operation, and a clone operation by dynamically allocating a new Flashcopy target volume for the new Flashcopy backup.