Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP
Methods and apparatus to manage shadow copy providers
A data storage management system includes a virtual provider for interacting with a coordinator to receive shadow copy requests from a requestor and for interfacing with a plurality of providers that support various logical units on which data volumes can be stored. The virtual provider appears to the coordinator as a provider and can generate a shadow copy of a first one of the data volumes that spans multiple ones of the logical units, which are supported by different ones of the plurality of providers.
EMC Corporation
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Sanjay Wei
Jain Liu