Systems and methods for sharing media in a computer network
AssigneeCommvault Systems, Inc.
InventorsRajiv Kottomtharayil, Parag Gokhale, Anand Prahlad, Manoj Kumar, David Ngo, Varghese Devassy
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Abstract
A computerized method for sharing removable storage media in a network, the method comprising associating, in an index entry, a first piece of removable storage media in a first storage device with at least a first storage policy copy and a second storage policy copy; copying, to the first piece of removable storage media, data associated with the first storage policy copy; and copying, to the first piece of removable storage media, data associated with the second storage policy copy.
Claims21
A system for sharing a media volume in a network, the system comprising:
- a storage manager module executing on a computing device;
- a first media management module executing in one or more computer processors communicatively coupled to a media volume and the storage manager module;
- a second media management module executing in one or more computer processors communicatively coupled to the media volume and the storage manager module;
- wherein the storage manager module is programmed to:
- instruct the termination of a first association between the first media management module and the media volume, and
- instruct the formation of a second association between the second media management module and the media volume;
- shift control of the first media volume from the first media management module to the second media management module by deactivating the first media management module and activating the second media management module wherein the second media management module mounts the media volume and creates an access path to the media volume;
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- delegate management of the access path to the second media management module.
A system for sharing a media volume in a network, the system comprising:
- a storage manager module executing in computer hardware comprising one or more computer processors;
- a first media management module executing in computer hardware comprising one or more computer processors communicatively coupled to a media volume and the storage manager module;
- a second media management module executing in computer hardware comprising one or more computer processors communicatively coupled to the media volume and the storage manager module;
- wherein the storage manager module is programmed to:
- instruct the deactivation of a first media management module with respect to the media volume;
- instruct the activation of a second media management module with respect to the media volume;
- shift control of the first media volume from the first media management module to the second media management module by causing deactivation of the first media management module with respect to the media volume and causing activation of the second media management module with respect to the media volume, wherein the second media management module accesses the media volume via an access path to the media volume;
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- instruct the second media management module to conduct data associated with a client computing device to the media volume as part of a data storage operation.
A method for dynamically sharing a media volume in a network, the method comprising:
- as implemented by computer hardware comprising one or more computer processors,
- instructing the deactivation of a first media management module with respect to a first media volume;
- instructing the activation of a second media management module with respect to the first media volume;
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- shifting control of the first media volume from the first media management module to the second media management module by causing the deactivation the first media management module with respect to the media volume and the activation of the second media management module with respect to the media volume, wherein the second media management module accesses the media volume via an access path to the media volume;
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- instructing the second media management module to conduct data associated with a client computing device to the media volume as part of a data storage operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.