Patent ID: 9639294
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for performing data management operations, the method comprising: monitoring data operations occurring at a first time to first data stored on one or more first storage devices associated with a primary storage system, the first data stored in a native format; creating a consistency point marker associated with the first time, wherein the consistency point marker comprises at least the first time; replicating the data operations with computer hardware to create replicated data of the first data on one or more second storage devices, the replicated data stored in the native format; based at least in part on encountering a consistency point marker while replicating the data operations, generating a backup copy of the replicated data at a second time that occurs after the first time, the backup copy stored in secondary storage system in a backup format wherein the backup format is different than the native format; and associating the backup copy of the replicated data in the backup format with the first data stored on the one or more first storage devices in the native format based on the first time in the consistency point marker even though the backup copy is a backup copy of the replicated data occurring at the second time after the first time, wherein after the associating, the backup copy of the replicated data appears to be a backup performed on the first data existing at the first time on the one or more first storage devices, while the first data stored in the native format continues to available for use on the one or more first storage devices.