Patent ID: 9619336
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: allocating, with a processor of a computing system, a first partition upon a storage device local to the computing system to store first production data of an external computing device external to the computing system; storing, with the processor of the computing system, the first production data in the first partition; receiving, with the processor of the computing system, a write request comprising second production data of the external computing device to be stored in the first partition, wherein the second production data is at least partially modified relative to the first production data; detecting, with the processor of the computing system, that the first partition does not have available space to store the second production data; allocating, via the processor of the computing system, a second partition upon the storage device to store the second production data; storing, via the processor of the computing system, the second production data in the second partition; transferring, with the processor of the computing system, the first production data stored in the first partition to a backup device external to the computing system; determining, with the processor of the computing system, that the transferring the first production data to the backup device is complete; deleting, with the processor of the computing system, the first partition; receiving, at the backup device, a read request corresponding to the first production data and returning from the backup device the first production data; and receiving, with the processor of the computing system, a read request corresponding to the second production data and returning from the processor of the computing system the first production data.