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Direct copying between disk blocks in memory onto a network as sequential access files

  • US 6,185,621 B1
  • Filed: 12/31/1997
  • Issued: 02/06/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer system for archiving data, comprising:

  • an electronic memory;

    means to connect a network input for communicating with the memory;

    means to connect a network output for communicating with the memory;

    disk retrieval means to provide a signal for retrieving information from files of a random access storage system onto the network input;

    disk input means to copy data of disk formatted information blocks from the network input into disk formatted information blocks in a buffer in the memory;

    sequential output means to copy data from such disk formatted information blocks in the same buffer onto the network output reformatted into sequential formatted information block which is larger than the disk formatted blocks and which contains information from a plurality of the disk formatted blocks; and

    sequential storing means to signal a sequential access storage system to store the sequential formatted information blocks from the network output.

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