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Disaster recovery failback

US9189338B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Shay H. Akirav · Nes Ziona, IL
Yariv Bachar · Netanya, IL
Evgeny Budilovsky · Yehud Monosson, IL
Aviv Caro · Holon, IL
Elena Drobchenko · Raanana, IL
Dov N. Hepner · Herzliya, IL
Aharon Lazar · Kiryat Ono, IL
Ofer Leneman · Kfar Sava, IL
Itay Maoz · Haifa, IL
Gil E. Paz · Yehud Monosson, IL
Tzafrir Z. Taub · Givatayim, IL

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 9, 2013
Grant date	Nov 17, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 1, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2201/815
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Pursuant to execution of a predetermined failback policy, if a storage device is not preexistent in a source storage system operable in the computing environment, and an owner of the storage device is one of a DR storage system and a storage system having previously withdrawn from a replication grid, and the DR storage system has authorization to transfer ownership of the storage device by a replacement operation, and an instance of the storage device is replicated to the source storage system to generate a replicated instance of the storage device on the source storage system.

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