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SCALABLE AUXILIARY COPY PROCESSING USING MEDIA AGENT RESOURCES

  • US 20160216904A1
  • Filed: 01/23/2015
  • Published: 07/28/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for scalably processing auxiliary-copy jobs in a storage management system using media agent resources, the method comprising:

  • coordinating, by a first media agent, the execution of a plurality of auxiliary-copy jobs in the storage management system, wherein each auxiliary-copy job in the plurality of auxiliary-copy jobs comprises generating a second copy of a first copy of data generated in the storage management system, wherein the second copy is designated an auxiliary copy;

    requesting, by the first media agent, from a storage manager, one or more reservations for respective one or more data streams to be used for data transfer in at least a first auxiliary-copy job in the plurality of auxiliary-copy jobs;

    assigning, by the first media agent, the first auxiliary-copy job to a second media agent to execute, based at least in part on one or more data streams reserved for the first auxiliary-job by the storage manager; and

    executing the first auxiliary-copy job, by the second media agent, based on job-specific metadata fetched by the second media agent from the storage manager.

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