Remote disaster data recovery system and method
First Claim
1. A disaster recovery computer system comprising at least one computer having programming associated therewith, the at least one computer communicatively connected to at least one local archival storage unit and at least one remote archival storage unit, wherein the computer programming when executed provides data transfer and control capability to create at the local archival storage unit a disaster recovery volume of a primary volume on at least one storage medium, which storage medium constitutes the disaster recovery volume, the computer programming associates the storage medium constituting the disaster recovery volume with the primary volume thereby allowing the storage medium to be relocated to a remote location without compromising the association between the primary volume and the disaster recovery volume.
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Abstract
The present invention provides computer systems, methods, and software products enabling the creation and maintenance of disaster recovery volumes having a reduced impact with regard to network traffic over a communications network. A disaster recovery volume is generally created at a local archival storage unit including therein at least one storage medium constituting the disaster recovery volume. The medium constituting the disaster recovery volume is associated with the primary volume thereby allowing the storage medium constituting the disaster recovery volume to be relocated to a remote archival storage unit at a remote location without compromising the association between the primary volume and the disaster recovery volume. Incremental changes to the primary volume may then be communicated and incorporated in to the disaster recovery relocated to the remote location.
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- 1. A disaster recovery computer system comprising at least one computer having programming associated therewith, the at least one computer communicatively connected to at least one local archival storage unit and at least one remote archival storage unit, wherein the computer programming when executed provides data transfer and control capability to create at the local archival storage unit a disaster recovery volume of a primary volume on at least one storage medium, which storage medium constitutes the disaster recovery volume, the computer programming associates the storage medium constituting the disaster recovery volume with the primary volume thereby allowing the storage medium to be relocated to a remote location without compromising the association between the primary volume and the disaster recovery volume.
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14. The system of clam 13, wherein the indicia comprises a tag included in each medium constituting the disaster recovery volume that identifies the source of data therein and information regarding a date and time the disaster recovery volume was created.
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15. A disaster recovery computer system comprising at least one client computer and at least one server computer each communicatively interconnected to at least one local archival storage unit and at least one remote archival storage unit, the client and server computers having programming associated therewith that when executed provides data transfer and control capability to create a disaster recovery volume of a primary volume on at least one storage medium, which storage medium constitutes the disaster recovery volume, at the local archival storage unit, wherein the computer programming is capable of associating the primary volume and the disaster recovery volume by including a tag in the storage medium that associates the storage medium with the primary volume which allows the storage medium to be relocated to a remote location without compromising the association between the volumes, the computer programming further capable of identifying and packaging incremental changes to the primary volume and communicating the incremental changes over a communications network to a particular disaster recovery volume relocated to the remote archival storage unit at a location remote from the local archival storage unit.
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16. A computer readable medium storing program code which when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform a method for creating a disaster recovery volume of a primary volume associated with a first computer, the method comprising:
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packaging a primary data set associated with the primary volume;
communicating the packaged primary data set associated with the primary volume to a local archival storage unit including therein at least one storage medium;
copying the packaged primary data set to the at least one storage medium, the at least one storage medium constituting the disaster recovery volume; and
associating the at least one storage medium constituting the disaster recovery volume with the primary volume thereby allowing the storage medium constituting the disaster recovery volume to be relocated to a remote archival storage unit at a remote location without compromising the association between the primary volume and the disaster recovery volume. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. The computer readable medium of 16, wherein the method comprises creating a disaster recovery volume of a primary volume from at least one copy selected from the group consisting of a backup volume of the primary volume, a quick recovery volume of the primary volume, and a snapshot image of the primary volume.
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27. A computer readable medium storing program code which when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform a method for creating a disaster recovery volume of a primary volume associated with a first computer, the method comprising:
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packaging a primary data set associated with the primary volume;
communicating the packaged primary data set associated with the primary volume to a local archival storage unit including therein at least one storage medium;
copying the packaged primary data set to the at least one storage medium, the at least one storage medium constituting the disaster recovery volume;
associating the at least one storage medium constituting the disaster recovery volume with the primary volume thereby allowing the storage medium constituting the disaster recovery volume to be relocated to a remote archival storage unit at a remote location without compromising the association between the primary volume and the disaster recovery volume, wherein the primary volume is associated with the at least one medium constituting the disaster recovery volume by including therein indicia for identifying the medium as at least a portion of the disaster recovery volume of the primary volume and identifying the date and time the disaster recovery volume was created;
identifying incremental changes to the primary volume;
packaging data representing incremental changes to the primary volume; and
communicating the packaged data over a communications network to the remote location; and
incorporating incremental the incremental changes to the primary volume into the disaster recovery volume relocated to a remote location.
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28. A method for creating a disaster recovery volume of a primary volume comprising:
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creating a backup copy of at least a portion of a primary volume on at least one storage medium at a first location;
transferring physically the at least one storage medium to a second location remote from the first location; and
updating the backup copy at the second location over a communications network to reflect incremental changes to the primary volume subsequent to the creation of the backup copy. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30)
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