Patent ID: 8171324
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a creation unit creating a preset number of pieces of second data by duplicating first data sent from a host computer, and holding the second data in a predetermined area or sending the second data to another information processing apparatus; a distribution of archive nodes, each including at least one storage device; a first writing unit for distributing the first data to a first storage device in a first node of the archive nodes in which the first data is to be written; an activation unit activating power to a second storage device in a second node of the archive nodes in which the second data is to be written at a predetermined time, the second storage device being in a stopped state; a second writing unit for distributing the second data to the second storage device in the second node of the distribution of archive nodes activated by the activation unit by retrieving from the predetermined area or another information processing apparatus the second data that is to be written in the second storage device after the second storage device is activated by the activation unit; and a stop unit stopping power to the second storage device in which the second data is written by the second writing unit.