Patent ID: 9256605
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a request from a user to replicate a storage entity on a host on a source-side of a continuous data protection system; generating a first target device, a second target device and a control device on a data protection appliance (DPA) on the source-side; notifying, by the DPA, a data protection agent installed on the host that the first and second target devices are targets for replication of the storage entity; replicating the storage entity to the first target device using the second target device, the control device and the data protection agent installed on a host which can access the storage entity, wherein the storage entity is not accessible exposed to the DPA during the replicating, and wherein the replicating comprises the data protection agent intercepting a write I/O to the storage entity and sending the write I/O to the first target device.