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Backing up filesystems to a storage device

US8321644B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P. · US

Inventors

Ludmila Cherkasova · Sunnyvale, US
Roger K. T. Lau · Sunnyvale, US
Harald Burose · Gäufelden, DE
Bernhard Kappler · Herrenberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 1, 2009
Grant date	Nov 27, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 8, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F11/1461
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method, a tangible non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and a tape library for backing up filesystems are provided. Historic job durations to back up data to a storage device are obtained. Objects to be backed up to multiple drives in the storage device are ordered based on the job durations. The objects are assigned to agents based on priorities that first back up an object having a longest job duration. The objects are backed up with the agents to the multiple drives according to the priorities.

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