Patent ID: 7971091

Claim:
A system for performing replication operations comprising: a continuous data protection system configured to save a series of transactions of a production application, the continuous data protection system configured to allow a point in time view of the series of transactions, wherein the continuous data protection system creates a copy of data involved in a write operation each time data is written by the production application; a replication application communicating with the continuous data protection system, the replication application configured to: initiate generation of at least one pseudosnapshot of the series of transactions saved on the continuous data protection system, wherein the series of transactions are included in a write journal of the continuous data protection system, wherein the pseudosnapshot identifies a dataset in the series of transaction with an event marker that identifies a time and date at which the at least one pseudosnapshot is created and that is associated with a particular transaction in the series of transactions and wherein the event marker identifies a point in time when the production application is in a quiescent state; and initiate surfacing of a copy of the dataset from the continuous data protection system, the copy including at least the portion of the series of transactions that were saved before the generation of the at least one pseudosnapshot; and a remote server communicating with the replication application, the remote server configured to send replication instructions to the replication application.