Patent ID: 8046630
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A storage control apparatus that includes a plurality of storage units connected with one another via a network and controls original data and backup data stored in the storage units, the storage units including a first storage unit that stores first original data in a first primary directory and a second storage unit that stores second original data in a second primary directory and backup data of the first original data in a first backup directory, the storage control apparatus comprising: a failure detecting unit that detects an occurrence of a failure in the first primary directory; and a logical-memory-area creating unit that creates, upon detection of the failure, a logical memory area in the second storage unit, the logical memory area being created in an area separate from the second primary directory and the first backup directory, in the logical memory area, the first backup directory and a second backup directory being allocated, and the first backup directory being allocated as the first primary directory.