Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080104139
Filing Date: October 26, 2006
Inventors: Xia Xu, Aaron Lindemann
Assignee: HP
Current U.S. Classification: 707, 707/202000
View Prior Art for Claim 00016
) A storage device system, comprising:
a memory for storing logic instructions; and
a processor for executing the logic instructions to:
link plural snapshots to a logical disk in a storage network, each snapshot including a copy of data at a different point in time; and
split snapshots from the logical disk to result in (1) the logical disk with no snapshots and (2) a snapshot tree with the plural snapshots.