Patent ID: 6249877
Filing Date: 2001-06-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for distributed file recovery in a distributed file system including a plurality of equipments connected to a transmission path, said method comprising the steps of:sending data for a file to be recovered to said transmission path from at least one of said equipments in response to a file recovery message from an equipment other than said at least one of said equipments, said equipment other than said at least one of said equipments having stored therein said file to be recovered;judging, in said equipment other than said at least one of said equipments, whether said data for said file to be recovered sent to said transmission path is related to a content of said file to be recovered;receiving, from said transmission path in said equipment other than said at least one of said equipments, said data for said file to be recovered judged to be related to said content of said file to be recovered; andgenerating, in said equipment other than said at least one of said equipments, data of a recovered file on the basis of said data for said file to be recovered.