Gregory E. McBride

Managing data replication sessions in response to an inability to access a storage volume

Avoiding out-of-space conditions in asynchronous data replication environments

Automatic data healing using a storage controller

Automatic data healing by I/O

Forming a consistency group comprised of volumes maintained by one or more storage controllers

Releasing space on secondary storage device for resynchronization

Performing a recovery copy command using a recovery copy data structure for a backup volume lookup

Performing a recovery copy command to create a recovery volume for a consistency group

Metadata track entry sorting in a data storage system

Performing a recovery copy command to restore a safeguarded copy backup to a production volume

Modifying aspects of a storage system associated with data mirroring

Processing a space release command to free release space in a consistency group

Using a space release data structure to indicate tracks to release for a space release command to release space of tracks

Modifying journaling associated with data mirroring within a storage system

Multi-section full volume backups

Updating change information for current copy relationships when establishing a new copy relationship having overlapping data with the current copy relationships

Authorization-based messaging

Data validation in copy repositories

Data breach source and timeline analysis

Optimized data corruption source and timeline analysis

Data corruption source and timeline analysis

Enhanced soft fence of devices

Switching over from using a first primary storage to using a second primary storage when the first primary storage is in a mirror relationship

Point-in-time snap copy withdrawal management

Point-in-time snap copy on asynchronous consistency group management

Restoration of data when point in time copy operations are performed during asynchronous copy

Copying data from multiple point-in-time copies to a log storage to use to roll-back a source storage

Data element validation in consistency groups

Using mirror indicators to indicate whether to mirror tracks in a data set in a primary volume mirrored to a secondary volume

Determining space to release in a target volume to which tracks from a source volume are mirrored

Determining tracks to release in a source volume being copied to a target volume

Determining tracks to release in a target volume mirrored from a source volume

Synchronized primary-secondary role swaps with synchronized safe data commit scans

Storage unit replacement using point-in-time snap copy

Enhanced soft fence of devices

Automatic data healing using a storage controller

Automatic data healing by I/O

File corruption recovery in concurrent data protection

Using mirror indicators to determine whether to mirror tracks in a data set in a primary volume mirrored to a secondary volume

WORKLOAD ALLOCATION ACROSS MULTIPLE PROCESSOR COMPLEXES

Efficient migration between asynchronous data replication technologies

Reducing coordination times in asynchronous data replication environments

Determining space to release in a target volume to which tracks from a source volume are mirrored

Determining tracks to release in a source volume being copied to a target volume

Determining tracks to release in a target volume mirrored from a source volume

Using a forward log storage and backward log storage to recover a storage to a forward or backward point-in-time

Pre-emptive data production site swap

Asynchronous local and remote generation of consistent point-in-time snap copies in consistency groups

Configuring a secondary storage system for data mirroring

Modifying aspects of a storage system associated with data mirroring

Modifying journaling associated with data mirroring within a storage system

Consistent point-in-time copy of a consistent asynchronous mirror target without pausing a consistent asynchronous mirror copy

Restoration of data when point in time copy operations are performed during asynchronous copy

Asynchronous local and remote generation of consistent point-in-time snap copies in consistency groups

Consistent point-in-time copy of a consistent asynchronous mirror target without pausing a consistent asynchronous mirror copy

Delayed consistent point-in-time copy from a secondary volume of a consistent asynchronous mirror copy

Coordination of point-in-time copy in asynchronous mirror environment during consistency group formation

Call home message containing bundled diagnostic data

Processing a space release command to free release space in a consistency group

Using a space release data structure to indicate tracks to release for a space release command to release space of tracks in a consistency group being formed

Point-in-time snap copy withdrawal management

Managing health conditions to determine when to restart replication after a swap triggered by a storage health event

Managing reads and writes to data entities experiencing a security breach from a suspicious process

Switching over from using a first primary storage to using a second primary storage when the first primary storage is in a mirror relationship

Point-in-time snap copy on asynchronous consistency group management

After swapping from a first storage to a second storage, mirroring data from the second storage to the first storage for data in the first storage that experienced data errors

Preservation of a golden copy that stores consistent data during a recovery process in an asynchronous copy environment

Processing a recall request for data migrated from a primary storage system having data mirrored to a secondary storage system

Releasing space allocated to a space efficient target storage in a copy relationship with a source storage

Hypervisor and virtual machine protection

Asynchronous mirror inconsistency correction

Asynchronous mirror consistency audit

Physical allocation unit optimization

Using a cascade flag to process a copy relationship having a backward cascade copy relationship

UPDATING CHANGE INFORMATION FOR CURRENT COPY RELATIONSHIPS WHEN ESTABLISHING A NEW COPY RELATIONSHIP HAVING OVERLAPPING DATA WITH THE CURRENT COPY RELATIONSHIPS

Using a cascade flag to process a copy relationship having a backward cascade copy relationship

Releasing space allocated to a space efficient target storage in a copy relationship with a source storage

Asynchronous local and remote generation of consistent point-in-time snap copies

Enabling point-in-time-copy target volumes to be primary volumes in cascaded data replication systems

Managing filesystem inodes

Copying data from multiple point-in-time copies to a log storage to use to roll-back a source storage

Using a forward log storage and backward log storage to recover a storage to a forward or backward point-in-time

Data recovery in multi-target data storage networks

Using mirror indicators to determine whether to mirror tracks in a data set in a primary volume mirrored to a secondary volume

Using mirror indicators to indicate whether to mirror tracks in a data set in a primary volume mirrored to a secondary volume

File corruption recovery in concurrent data protection

Efficient sidefile utilization in asynchronous data replication systems

Efficient sidefile utilization in asynchronous data replication systems

Managing a set of blocks in a storage system

Managing a set of blocks in a storage system

Selective write control

Metadata-based bypassing in a controller

After swapping from a first storage to a second storage, mirroring data from the second storage to the first storage for data in the first storage that experienced data errors

Managing health conditions to determine when to restart replication after a swap triggered by a storage health event

Traffic safety alert system

Data recovery in multi-target data storage networks

Using mirror indicators to indicate whether to mirror tracks in a data set in a primary volume mirrored to a secondary volume

Using mirror indicators to determine whether to mirror tracks in a data set in a primary volume mirrored to a secondary volume

Space reclamation in space-efficient secondary volumes

Space reclamation in asynchronously mirrored space-efficient secondary volumes