Checkpoints for a file system

Reusing snapshots in a network data management protocol backup operation

Method and system for virtual on-demand recovery

Creating a buffer point-in-time copy relationship for a point-in-time copy function executed to create a point-in-time copy relationship

System and method for maintaining consistent points in file systems

Instant data restoration

Using the Short Stroked Portion of Hard Disk Drives for a Mirrored Copy of Solid State Drives

Methods and systems for snapshot reconstitution

Near continuous space-efficient data protection

Restoring computing environments, such as autorecovery of file systems at certain points in time

Method and system for replicating data

Multiple cascaded backup process

Method for optimizing cleaning of maps in flashcopy cascades containing incremental maps

Computer system and data backup method combining flashcopy and remote copy

Method and system for data replication

Methods for dynamic consistency group formation

Facilitation of search, list, and retrieval operations on persistent data set using distributed shared memory

BACKUP AND RESTORATION OF COMPUTER INFORMATION

Cascaded, point-in-time-copy architecture with data deduplication

Data copying

METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR SPECULATIVE EXECUTION EVENT COUNTER CHECKPOINTING AND RESTORING

Recovery in shared memory environment

Incremental backup of source to target storage volume

Data transfer and recovery process

Flash-copying with asynchronous mirroring environment

Storage Management and Acceleration of Storage Media in Clusters

Method and system for offline indexing of content and classifying stored data

Extender storage pool system

Incremental virtual machine backup supporting migration

Continuous data protection over intermittent connections, such as continuous data backup for laptops or wireless devices

Space efficient cascading point in time copying

Journal volume backup to a storage device

Clustered filesystem with data volume snapshot maintenance

Snapshot storage and management system with indexing and user interface

Semiconductor memory system having a snapshot function

Method and system of performing incremental SQL server database backups

System and method for creating and maintaining secondary server sites

System and method for storing data off site

VIRTUAL DISK DRIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH DEDUPLICATION

Method and apparatus for data recovery using storage based journaling

Method and apparatus for maintaining replica sets

Online fault verification in a file system

Proactive error scan and isolated error correction

System reset and system restore

Backup and restore of data from any cluster node

CONTEXT-SPECIFIC ROLLBACK

Host based software block level replication using metadata indicating changed data objects at source and secondary nodes

Failure recovery method in information processing system and information processing system

Instant data restoration

Flash-copying within asynchronous mirroring environment

Method, system and device for validating repair files and repairing corrupt software

File system backup using change journal

Multi-RPO data protection

Dynamic use of raid levels responsive to workload requirements

Reducing data duplication in cloud storage

Incremental restore of data between storage systems having dissimilar storage operating systems associated therewith

Periodic data replication

Variable data preservation prewrite

APPLICATION AWARE SNAPSHOTS

Systems and methods for backing up storage volumes in a storage system

Facilitation of search, list, and retrieval operations on persistent data set using distributed shared memory

Systems and methods for restoring a file

Electronic backup of applications

System and method for performing a plurality of prescribed data management functions in a manner that reduces redundant access operations to primary storage

System and method for performing backup or restore operations utilizing difference information and timeline state information

VIRTUAL DISK DRIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH CLOUD-BASED STORAGE MEDIA

System and method for improved garbage collection operations in a deduplicated store by tracking temporal relationships among copies

System and method for managing deduplicated copies of data using temporal relationships among copies

Snapshots in a hybrid storage device comprising a magnetic disk and a solid state disk

Data loss monitoring of partial data streams

Method, System, and Database Archive for Enhancing Database Archiving

File deduplication in a file system

Database data recovery system and method

Multitenant hosted virtual machine infrastructure

System and method for generating and managing quick recovery volumes

Item level recovery

Virtual database system

Archiving data objects using secondary copies

Data recovery operations, such as recovery from modified network data management protocol data

Managing snapshots of virtual server

Transmitting filesystem changes over a network

System and method for providing flexible storage and retrieval of snapshot archives

Mass storage system and method of operating using consistency checkpoints and destaging

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POINT-IN-TIME VOLUMES

System and method for enhancing availability of a distributed object storage system during a partial database outage

Dynamic consistency group formation and systems using the same

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BACKUP OF VIRTUAL MACHINE DATA

Clustered filesystem with membership version support

Remote office duplication

Recoverability while adding storage to a redirect-on-write storage pool

COMPUTER SYSTEM, STORAGE DEVICE AND DATE UPDATING METHOD

Techniques for using sparse files during snapshots

Disk apparatus, data replicating method onto disk apparatus and program recording medium

Method and system for acquiring a quiesceing set of information associated with a virtual machine

Throttling storage initialization for data destage

Data replication techniques using incremental checkpoints

Mechanism to provide assured recovery for distributed application

Storage system group including scale-out storage system and management method therefor

Distributed snapshot process

Systems, methods, and computer program products for instant recovery of image level backups

Deduplication of data stored in a copy volume

Unified management of storage and application consistent snapshots

Virtual machine aware replication method and system

De-duplication based backup of file systems

Checkpoints for a file system

User interface for electronic backup

Retaining disk identification in operating system environment after a hardware-driven snapshot restore from a snapshot-LUN created using software-driven snapshot architecture

Multiple cascaded backup process

Memory access table saving and restoring system and methods

Recovery in shared memory environment

Systems and methods for performing data replication

Systems and methods for performing data replication

Systems and methods for performing data replication

USER INTERFACE FOR CONFIGURING AND MANAGING THE CLUSTER

QProcessor architecture in a cluster configuration

Managing the Cluster

METHOD FOR THE FILE SYSTEM OF FIGURE 7 FOR THE CLUSTER

Cascade ordering

System and method for backup by splitting a copy pair and storing a snapshot

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA BACKUP AND REPLICATION

Data protection in a data storage system

Method and system for generating consistent snapshots for a group of data objects

Journal event consolidation

Method and apparatus for synchronizing applications for data recovery using storage based journaling

Efficient cloud network attached storage

Methods and apparatus for providing hypervisor level data services for server virtualization

System and method for performing integrated storage operations

Generating and using checkpoints in a virtual computer system

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE SHARING ACROSS MULTI-CLOUD ARRAYS

Creating a snapshot based on a marker transferred from a first storage system to a second storage system

Virtual disk drive system and method

Virtual disk drive system and method

Virtual disk drive system and method

Detecting inadvertent or malicious data corruption in storage subsystems and recovering data

EXPRESS-FULL BACKUP OF A CLUSTER SHARED VIRTUAL MACHINE

Backup apparatus, backup method and computer-readable recording medium in or on which backup program is recorded

Restoration of a parent LUN through modification of a read-write clone LUN as the parent LUN

BACKUP SYSTEM AND BACKUP METHOD

System and method for redundant object storage

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION RECOVERY USING SNAPSHOT DATABASE

Method for implementing multi-array consistency groups using a write queuing mechanism

USING REVERSE TIME FOR COVERAGE ANALYSIS

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT SNAPSHOTTING OF DATA-OBJECTS

BLOCK BASED VSS TECHNOLOGY IN WORKLOAD MIGRATION AND DISASTER RECOVERY IN COMPUTING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT

Storage controller and storage control method for dynamically assigning partial areas of pool area as data storage areas

Snapshot management method, snapshot management apparatus, and computer-readable, non-transitory medium

INCREMENTAL REPLICATION USING SNAPSHOTS

Multiple backup processes

Creating a buffer point-in-time copy relationship for a point-in-time copy function executed to create a point-in-time copy relationship

Performing a data write on a storage device

System and method for high performance enterprise data protection

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for backup and restoration of computer information

Data transfer and recovery process

Storage systems having differentiated storage pools

System and method for improving performance of data container backups

Method and apparatus for high availability (HA) protection of a running virtual machine (VM)

Tape backup method

Apparatus, system and method for volume-level restoration of cluster server data

Incremental problem determination and resolution in cloud environments

Data storage with snapshot-to-snapshot recovery

Managing copy-on-writes to snapshots

Clustered filesystem with data volume snapshot maintenance

Directory file system in a dispersed storage network

Method and system for virtual on-demand recovery for real-time, continuous data protection

Memory system storing management information and method of controlling same

Dispersed storage network utilizing revision snapshots

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PER-ACTION COMPILING IN CONTACT HANDLING SYSTEMS

Techniques for determining an implemented data protection policy

Personalized tag ranking

Non-volatile memory for checkpoint storage

Using the change-recording feature for point-in-time-copy technology to perform more effective backups

Presentation of a read-only clone LUN to a host device as a snapshot of a parent LUN

Snapshot indexing

System and method for establishing a copy pair relationship between source and destination volumes

System and method for efficiently creating off-site data volume back-ups

Method and system for frequent checkpointing

Method and system for frequent checkpointing

Event counter checkpointing and restoring

Systems and methods for performing data management operations using snapshots

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPPORTUNISTIC RE-IMAGING USING CANNIBALISTIC STORAGE TECHNIQUES ON SPARSE STORAGE DEVICES

Systems and methods for analyzing snapshots

Storage controller and data management method

Transaction recovery in a transaction processing computer system employing multiple transaction managers

Storage system and control method for the same

Data storage device with power-off recovery system and method thereof

Snapshot storage and management system with indexing and user interface

Focused backup scanning

System and method for virtual device communication filtering

System and method for authorization and management of connections and attachment of resources

Concurrent data processing using snapshot technology

Distributed storage through a volume device architecture

Snapshot system

Systems and methods for adaptive copy on write

Method for obtaining a snapshot image of a disk shared by multiple virtual machines

Rollback feature

Synchronizing snapshot volumes across hosts

Providing a simulated dynamic image of a file system

Method and system for offline indexing of content and classifying stored data

Virtual database system

Application-based backup-restore of electronic information

Computing device with recovery mode

Computing device with developer mode

Virtual disk drive system and method

System and method of tracking and communicating computer states

Storage device and information management system

System and method for performing an image level snapshot and for restoring partial volume data

USING IN-THE-CLOUD STORAGE FOR COMPUTER HEALTH DATA

Distributed database recovery

Storage system and method of producing recovery volume

Data copying

Storage system providing effective use of target device resources

Cloud data backup storage manager

Proxy backup of virtual disk image files on NAS devices

Method and apparatus for providing and receiving contents via network, method and apparatus for backing up data via network, backup data providing device, and backup system

System and method for managing data deduplication of storage systems utilizing persistent consistency point images

Remote copy system and remote copy control method

Techniques for determining an implemented data protection policy

Systems and Methods for Migrating Components in a Hierarchical Storage Network

Backup of virtual machines using cloned virtual machines

Storage system, control apparatus and method of controlling control apparatus

POLICY-BASED APPLICATION AWARE STORAGE ARRAY SNAPSHOT BACKUP AND RESTORE TECHNIQUE

Method and apparatus for block based volume backup

Block-level single instancing

BACKUP MANAGEMENT METHOD

Systems, methods, and media for recovering an application from a fault or attack

Systems and methods for storage modeling and costing

System and method for differential backup

System and method for performing integrated storage operations

Interface for Virtual Machine Administration in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Method and apparatus for backup and recovery using storage based journaling

Cable with memory

Storage controller and data management method

RESTORATION OF A SYSTEM FROM A SET OF FULL AND PARTIAL DELTA SYSTEM SNAPSHOTS ACROSS A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM

Method and apparatus for logical volume management for virtual machine environment

Method and apparatus for data recovery system using storage based journaling

Incremental backup of source to target storage volume

Methods and apparatus for backup and restore of thin provisioning volume

Cloning and recovery of data volumes

Creating a snapshot based on a marker transferred from a first storage system to a second storage system

System and method for performing rapid data snapshots

Snapshot reset method and apparatus

Storage subsystem and storage system for updating snapshot management information

Tenant management of a hosted multi-tenant application

Resource integrity during partial backout of application updates

Memory system storing updated status information and updated address translation information and managing method therefor

Memory system managing a size of logs

Method and system for interfacing to cloud storage

Method and system for versioned file system using structured data representations

TECHNIQUES FOR FACILITATING COPY CREATION

Snapshot indexing

Systems and methods of searching for and determining modified blocks in a file system

Systems and methods for performing discrete data replication

System for automatically shadowing encrypted data and file directory structures for a plurality of network-connected computers using a network-attached memory with single instance storage

Memory system

Generating a recovery snapshot and creating a virtual view of the recovery snapshot

Time ordered view of backup data on behalf of a host

Causation of a data read against a first storage system to optionally store a data write to preserve the version to allow viewing and recovery

Recovery point data view formation with generation of a recovery view and a coalesce policy

Storage apparatus and data restoring method used therein

Systems and methods for managing replicated database data

Multitenant hosted virtual machine infrastructure

Backup apparatus, backup method and backup program

Multiple concurrent active file systems

Systems and methods for information backup

Application restore points

System and method for recovering solid state drive data

Generating and using checkpoints in a virtual computer system

Lightweight application-level runtime state save-and-restore utility

Maintaining storage device backup consistency

Remote office duplication

Computer system storage device and date updating method

Optimizing defragmentation operations in a differential snapshotter

Method and apparatus for maximizing data recoverability using coupling updates by parties

Rolling cache configuration for a data replication system

Method, system and computer program product for solution replication

Fibre channel fabric snapshot server

Method for optimizing cleaning of maps in FlashCopy cascades containing incremental maps

Information processing apparatus, and operation method of storage system

Management computer used to construct backup configuration of application data

Linear space allocation mechanisms in data space

Tracking block-level changes using snapshots

System and method for high performance enterprise data protection

Image level copy or restore, such as image level restore without knowledge of data object metadata

Using a snapshot as a data source

Systems and methods for management of virtualization data

Storage system and method for operating storage system

Backup apparatus, backup method and computer readable medium having a backup program

Journal volume backup to a storage device

Incremental backup using snapshot delta views

System for automatically shadowing data and file directory structures that are recorded on a computer memory

Low traffic failback remote copy

Virtual disk drive system and method

Managing backups using virtual machines

Efficient management of archival images of virtual machines having incremental snapshots

Flexible remote data mirroring

STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD

Storage system for data encryption

Data storage with snapshot-to-snapshot recovery

Providing executing programs with access to stored block data of others

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA BETWEEN DIFFERENT RAID DATA STORAGE TYPES FOR CURRENT DATA AND REPLAY DATA