GB2407659A - Disaster recovery using multiple boot images held on a sequential storage device - Google Patents

Disaster recovery using multiple boot images held on a sequential storage device Download PDF

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GB2407659A
GB2407659A GB0325448A GB0325448A GB2407659A GB 2407659 A GB2407659 A GB 2407659A GB 0325448 A GB0325448 A GB 0325448A GB 0325448 A GB0325448 A GB 0325448A GB 2407659 A GB2407659 A GB 2407659A
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Rhys Wynn Evans
Alastair Michael Slater
Duncan Wakelin
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Hewlett Packard Development Co LP
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Priority to US10/965,201 priority patent/US20050114387A1/en
Priority to EP04105132A priority patent/EP1528470A1/en
Priority to JP2004303996A priority patent/JP2005135406A/ja
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/44—Arrangements for executing specific programs
    • G06F9/4401—Bootstrapping
    • G06F9/4406—Loading of operating system
    • G06F9/441—Multiboot arrangements, i.e. selecting an operating system to be loaded
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F11/00—Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring
    • G06F11/07—Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
    • G06F11/14—Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operation
    • G06F11/1402—Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying
    • G06F11/1415—Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying at system level
    • G06F11/1417—Boot up procedures
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F11/00—Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring
    • G06F11/07—Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
    • G06F11/14—Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operation
    • G06F11/1402—Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying
    • G06F11/1446—Point-in-time backing up or restoration of persistent data
    • G06F11/1458—Management of the backup or restore process
    • G06F11/1464—Management of the backup or restore process for networked environments

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  • Information Retrieval, Db Structures And Fs Structures Therefor (AREA)
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GB0325448A GB2407659A (en) 2003-10-31 2003-10-31 Disaster recovery using multiple boot images held on a sequential storage device
US10/965,201 US20050114387A1 (en) 2003-10-31 2004-10-15 Data backup and recovery
EP04105132A EP1528470A1 (en) 2003-10-31 2004-10-18 Data Backup And Recovery
JP2004303996A JP2005135406A (ja) 2003-10-31 2004-10-19 データのバックアップおよびリカバリ

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