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Apparatus, system, and method for emergency backup

  • US 7,536,593 B2
  • Filed: 03/05/2004
  • Issued: 05/19/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus for efficient data backup, the apparatus comprising:

  • a memory module embodied in a control module and storing modified and unmodified data; and

    a backup module detecting a system failure and in response to detecting the system failure closing a host interface and concurrently selectively transmitting modified data stored in the memory module to a dedicated computer readable backup device and shutting down the control module and memory module, wherein the dedicated computer readable backup device comprises a hard disk drive formatted into sectors of a standard size, the hard disk storing the modified data in a plurality of the sectors located at three outermost tracks of the hard disk.

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