System and article of manufacture for consistent copying of storage volumes

Provided are a system and article of manufacture for copying storage. Copy operations are performed on source storage units to copy to target storage units, wherein the copy operations create a consistent copy of the source storage units in the target storage units. While performing a copy operation...

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Main Authors Werner, Sam Clark, Micka, William Frank, Tal, Sivan, Nuriel, Ifat, Rahav, Sheli, Spear, Gail Andrea, Stanley, Warren K
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 08.03.2011
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Summary:Provided are a system and article of manufacture for copying storage. Copy operations are performed on source storage units to copy to target storage units, wherein the copy operations create a consistent copy of the source storage units in the target storage units. While performing a copy operation to copy from one source storage unit to one target storage unit, a write operation is restricted from being performed on the one source storage unit, until the copy operations have been performed on the source storage units.