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Replication arbitration apparatus, method and program

  • US 20070106712A1
  • Filed: 10/27/2006
  • Published: 05/10/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An arbitration apparatus placed between a storage system of a replication source and a storage system of a replication destination;

  • transfer between the storage system of said replication source and the storage system of said replication destination being performed via said arbitration apparatus, said arbitration apparatus comprising;

    acceptance means that receives the update information which has been transferred from the storage system of the replication source;

    storing means in which the update information received is temporarily stored;

    transmitting means that transmit the update information received to the storage system of the replication destination; and

    schedule means that controls scheduling of transmission of the update information received, based upon address information of the update information in storage of said replication source, so as to transmit the update information received immediately or preferentially to the storage system of a replication destination, or to store the update information received in the storing means temporarily and transmit the update information hat has been temporarily stored in the storing means to the storage system of the replication destination on the occurrence of a prescribed event.

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