Patent ID: 7707357

Claim:
A storage control system, comprising: a first channel control section connected to a storage area network located externally to said storage control system; a second channel control section for transferring data, sent from said first channel control section, to an external storage control system; and a cache memory for temporarily storing data received via said first channel control section or said second channel control section, wherein said first channel control section comprises: a second processor for receiving block level data from a first processor which converts file level data into said block level data, wherein at least one of said first processor and said second processor performs a judgment whether all of said block level data, or a portion of said block level data, is to be stored in said external storage control system based on metadata which relates to files managed by said first processor, wherein said second processor transfers said block level data, received from said first processor, to said second channel control section, based on a result of said judgment, and wherein said metadata contains file identification information and save destination address information corresponding to a plurality of files and said first processor identifies save destination address information corresponding to file identification information contained in received file level data from said metadata.