SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY
First Claim
1. A method for facilitating discovery of electronic data stored in a data storage system, the method comprising:
- generating a snapshot of the electronic data, wherein the snapshot permits read access to the data, and a copy-on-write technique is used to perform modifications to the data, such that the snapshot is immutable but ongoing user operations with respect to the data can be performed substantially without interruption; and
providing access to the snapshot of the electronic data to an analysis computer system.
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Abstract
A method for facilitating discovery of electronic data stored in a data storage system. The method includes generating a snapshot of the electronic data, wherein the snapshot permits read access to the data, and a copy-on-write technique is used to perform modifications to the data, such that the snapshot is immutable but ongoing user operations with respect to the data can be performed substantially without interruption. The method also includes transmitting data of the snapshot over a network to a data cache server to which an analysis computer system is communicatively coupled. In some embodiments, the data cache server may store a local copy of the transmitted data of the snapshot. In this regard, the data cache server may determine whether data requested by the analysis computer system is stored locally, and if so, the data cache server may transmit the data requested directly to the analysis computer system.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for facilitating discovery of electronic data stored in a data storage system, the method comprising:
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generating a snapshot of the electronic data, wherein the snapshot permits read access to the data, and a copy-on-write technique is used to perform modifications to the data, such that the snapshot is immutable but ongoing user operations with respect to the data can be performed substantially without interruption; and providing access to the snapshot of the electronic data to an analysis computer system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An information handling system comprising:
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a data storage site comprising a data storage system and a system controller, the system controller communicatively coupled with the data storage system and managing access to the data storage system by one or more user computer systems, the system controller further managing a snapshot of data of the data storage system, wherein the snapshot permits read access to the corresponding data, and the system controller utilizes a copy-on-write technique to perform modifications to the corresponding data, such that the snapshot is immutable but ongoing input/output (I/O) requests from the one or more user computer systems with respect to the data are performed substantially without interruption; and an e-discovery site comprising a data cache server and one or more analysis computer systems communicatively coupled with the data cache server, wherein the system controller and data cache server are communicatively coupled via a computer network; wherein, upon request from the data cache server, the system controller provides access to the snapshot of data. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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