Patent ID: 9715477
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for sharing bandwidth in a data processing system having a plurality of locations, the method comprising: splitting data into a plurality of data elements; sending, from a sender, each one of the plurality of data elements to a different location selected from the plurality of locations, wherein each data element is different; and sending a message from the sender to each of the locations receiving one of the data elements, wherein the message is sent from the sender separate from the data elements, and the message includes: wherein the message includes all of the addresses of all of the locations of the plurality of locations receiving one of the data elements of the data; wherein the data is split into the plurality of data elements at a disk level, such that a storage system copying a plurality of disks splits a first half of the disks into a first one of the data elements, and splits a second half of the disks into a second one of the data elements.