A machine-readable instruction to cause an application to initiate a data read operation against a first storage system to store at least one data write, the data read operation initiated to optionally store at least one of a read data write into a second storage system and preserve a version associated with a time of read at the first storage system for viewing and recovery, the machine-readable instruction comprising:
- a portion to specify an origin machine address and a destination machine address of at least one data write;
- a portion to specify a storage module in the first storage system to receive at least one data write, wherein the storage module is comprised of at least one of a storage device and a partition;
- a portion to specify at least one physical memory offset in the storage module, wherein the offset earmarks the beginning of a payload portion of at least one data write;
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- a portion to specify a bit length of at least one payload of at least one data write.
- instead of reading from primary storage