Method and system for star replication using multiple replication technologies
AssigneeEMC IP Holding Company LLC
InventorsAssaf Natanzon, Saar Cohen, Anestis Panidis
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for performing data replication and backup. The method comprises performing a first data replication of a production site storage to a replication site storage and performing a first backup of the production site storage to a production site backup storage. A second data replication then may be performed from the production site backup storage to a backup site backup storage.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- replicating a production site to a replication site;
- replicating a backup of the production site from a local backup storage associated with the production site to a remote backup storage associated with the replication site;
- performing a failover such that the replication site becomes a current production site, the production site becomes the current replication site, the local backup storage becomes a current remote backup storage, and the remote backup storage associated with the replication site becomes the current local backup storage;
- updating the current local backup storage based on the current production site;
- replicating the current production site to the current replication site;
- and
- replicating the current local backup storage to the current remote backup storage, wherein replication from the production site to the replication site is faster than replication from the local backup storage associated with the production site to the remote backup storage associated with the replication site.
A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:
- replicating a production site to a replication site;
- replicating a backup of the production site from a local backup storage associated with the production site to a remote backup storage associated with the replication site;
- performing a failover such that the replication site becomes a current production site, the production site becomes the current replication site, the local backup storage becomes a current remote backup storage, and the remote backup storage associated with the replication site becomes the current local backup storage;
- updating the current local backup storage based on the current production site;
- replicating the current production site to the current replication site;
- and
- replicating the current local backup storage to the current remote backup storage, wherein replication from the production site to the replication site is faster than replication from the local backup storage associated with the production site to the remote backup storage associated with the replication site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.