Patent ID: 8364648
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data management method, comprising: capturing, in real time, complete record changes of a database-system data source along a single data path; wherein an actual change order of the complete record changes is preserved; wherein changes to new volumes are captured; receiving from the database-system data source, as a real-time continuous history of the database-system data source, a real-time event journal; storing in a data store the real-time continuous history of the database-system data source as a logical representation, wherein consistent checkpoint images of different database versions, real-time event journal versions, and database transactions are stored in association with time stamps indicating when the database versions and journal versions were created and when the transactions occurred; and using the logical representation for any point-in-time recovery of a data set of the database-system data source, wherein the any point-in-time recovery includes: