Patent ID: 9264493
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product for copying source data in a first storage to a first data copy in a second storage, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein that executes to cause operations, the operations comprising: initiating a first copy operation to copy the source data from the first storage to the first data copy in the second storage; initiating a second copy operation to copy the first data copy in the second storage to a second data copy in response to forming a consistency group of the source data at the first data copy consistent as of a point-in-time with respect to the source data; determining whether there is indication to pause forming consistency groups in response to completing the second copy operation; and initiating forming a next consistency group between the source data and the first data copy in response to determining that there is no indication to pause forming consistency groups.