Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Collision avoidance using dynamic target volume allocation
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Application No.: US14243237Application Date: 2014-04-02
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Publication No.: US09672118B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Joseph W. Dain , Gregory T. Kishi , Osnat Shasha , Christopher Zaremba
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F11/14
- IPC: G06F11/14

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150286540A1 COLLISION AVOIDANCE USING DYNAMIC TARGET VOLUME ALLOCATION Public/Granted day:2015-10-08
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