Systems and methods for performing storage operations using network attached storage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9104340-B2
Application number	US-201314038614-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 26, 2013
Priority date	Nov 13, 2003
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods for performing hierarchical storage operations on electronic data in a computer network are provided. In one embodiment, the present invention may store electronic data from a network device to a network attached storage (NAS) device pursuant to certain storage criteria. The data stored on the NAS may be migrated to a secondary storage and a stub file having a pointer pointing to the secondary storage may be put at the location the data was previously stored on the NAS. The stub file may redirect the network device to the secondary storage if a read request for the data is received from the network device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for managing the storage of electronic data, the method comprising:
storing a first copy of one or more files at a first storage location within a first storage device, the first storage device in communication with other devices via a network and comprising first computer hardware, an internal operating system, and an internal file management system;
tracking the first copy of the one or more files stored in the first storage device with a data m…

Assignees

• Commvault Systems Inc

Inventors

• Prahlad Anand
• Schwartz Jeremy Alan

Classifications

• G06F3/0649 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0619

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/067 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• Y10S707/99955

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G06F17/30221

  Physics · mapped topic