Patent ID: 7617262
Filing Date: 2009-11-10
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring a computer application to perform data replication in a computer network, the method comprising: detecting data operations sent from a computer application to a file system on a source computer, said data operations operative to write data to a first storage device, wherein the computer application is not a data replication or a data backup application; populating a first log file with data entries indicative of the data operations sent by the computer application to the file system; detecting a known good state of the computer application; quiescing, at the known good state of the computer application, the sending of the data operations from the computer application to the file system; and inserting in the first log file a marker including time information identifying a time of the known good state of the computer application, wherein the marker indicates a consistency point to a replication system to perform a snapshot of replicated data in the replication system.