Methods for controlling remote archiving systems
AssigneeImation Corp.
InventorsMatthew D. Bondurant, S. Christopher Alaimo
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a unique and novel archiving system that includes two or more network storage systems, each network storage system including removable hard disk drives embedded in removable disk cartridges, referred to simply as removable disk drives. The removable disk drives allow for expandability and replacement such that the archiving system need not be duplicated to add new or more storage capacity. In embodiments, the archiving system accesses, writes, reads, or performs functions on data from one network storage system to another remote network storage system.
Claims20
An archiving system for archiving data, the archiving system comprising:
- a network;
- two or more network storage systems, the two or more network storage systems in communication with the network, the network storage systems comprising:
- one or more removable disk drives, the one or more removable disk drives operable to store archival data, each removable disk drive comprising:
- a data cartridge case;
- a connector;
- an embedded memory, the embedded memory physically attached to the data cartridge case, the embedded memory electrically connected to the connector, the embedded memory operable to store archival data;
- one or more drive ports, each drive port including a data cartridge connector which mates with the connector to communicate with the embedded memory, the one or more drive ports in communication with one or more application servers, the one or more drive ports receiving the archival data from the one or more application servers and sending the archival data to the embedded memory for storage;
- an archiving system appliance in communication with the removable disk drives, the archiving system managing storage of the archival data stored in the one or more removable disk drives;
- and
- wherein, the network storage systems are operable to send actions to one or more other network storage systems, the network storage systems operable to process the actions received from another network storage system, and the network storage system operable to send a response to the action.
A method, executable in a computer system, for populating an aggregated archive information datastore, the archiving system comprising two or more network storage systems, each network storage system comprising one or more removable disk drives and a local archive, the method comprising:
- assigning a primary network storage system;
- requesting, from the primary network storage system, local archive data from one or more other network storage systems;
- receiving, at the primary network storage system, local archive data from the one or more other network storage systems;
- creating an aggregated information archive datastore at the primary network storage system;
- and
- storing the received local archive data into the aggregated information archive datastore at the primary network storage system.
A method, executable in a computer system, for executing performing an action in a remote network storage system of an archiving system, the network storage system comprising one or more removable disk drives, wherein one or more of the removable disk drives stores one or more information elements of archived data, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for an action to be performed on the archived data in the remote network storage system;
- determining a location of the archived data;
- sending a request to the remote network storage system determined to be the location of the archived data;
- and
- receiving a response to the request from the remote network storage system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.