Patent ID: 11953993
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer readable medium having executable instructions operable to cause an apparatus to:
receive at least one request for a copy of production data from an application;
create a live backup copy from the production data, the live backup copy comprising a block by block copy of the production data;
create a flash copy of the live backup copy of the production data and a flash copy bitmap, the flash copy comprising a point-in-time snapshot of the live backup copy, the flash copy bitmap for tracking changes between the live backup copy and the flash copy;
modifying the live backup copy by changing a subset of data in the live backup copy;
record the changed subset of data using the flash copy bitmap;
mount the modified live backup copy to the application; and
transform the modified live backup copy back to the live backup copy when unmounting the modified live backup copy of the production data from the application by applying changes associated with the flash copy bitmap to the live backup copy, thereby creating a live copy of a data object from a production system for use by third party applications.