Patent ID: 7636743

Claim:
A method for performing pathname translation in a data replication system, the method comprising: storing log entries in a first log file on a source system; copying at least a portion of the log entries to a second log file on a destination system; processing the log entries in the second log file to create replicated data on a destination system, wherein one or more of the log entries identify a data management operation and an inode associated with a source system location corresponding to the data management operation, the inode being one of a plurality of inodes on the source system; storing in a database on the destination system, a short inode name and a parent inode name for at least a first inode identified by the log entries in the second log file; processing a log entry from the second log file on the destination device that identifies a second inode, wherein the first inode is the parent of the second inode; accessing the database on the destination system to obtain path data for the second inode based on the short inode name and the parent inode name of the first inode stored in the database; constructing from the path data an absolute pathname on the destination system that corresponds to the second inode of the log entry in the second log file.