A determination is made that a point-in-time copy of a consistency group of a production
volume has to be stored in a backup storage that is configured to store a plurality of point-in …

A source volume is restored to the time of a selected incremental backup volume without
writing over all of the data blocks in the source volume. If the source volume has valid data …

A method for migrating volumes in a storage system includes identifying an extent of data
(belonging to a volume) requiring migration from a source extent to a target extent. The …

A synthetic full backup of a source volume is retrieved, the synthetic full having been created
from merging a backup chain including an incremental backup into a full backup. The full …

Initiate the logical copy operation using the determined full target volume or for each data
unit in the source Volume or allocate a repository as the backup space, wherein the …

A source volume and a copy volume are stored, where the copy volume contains data that
has been modified by writes to the source volume. In response to a write to a particular …

Techniques are provided for efficiently managing multi-tier storage systems with multiple
types of storage class tiers encompassed in a single tiered range Volume. In an embodi …

For handling multiple backup processes, computer-readable program code is described for
receiving one or more instructions initiating a plurality of backup processes from a single …

Managing storage volumes in a point-in-time copy cascade. The cascade includes a first
source volume, a first point-in-time target volume, and a second point-in-time target volume …

In one embodiment, a storage system for storage management in a tiered storage
environment comprises a plurality of storage volumes in a pool which are divided into a …