Patent ID: 8271648

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving and storing by a first server a serialized tracking identity and health for each of a plurality of storage devices associated with each of one or more second servers; receiving at said first server, from a remote source, a first data content duplication request comprising the serialized tracking identity for each of a plurality of storage devices associated with a select one or more second servers; transmitting from said first server a request to access a first data content stored on a first data storage memory and to cause said accessed first data content to be simultaneously multicast and written to said select one or more second servers and associated said plurality of storage devices according to said serialized tracking identity and first data content, wherein writing of said first data content is terminated to any of said associated plurality of storage devices that generates errors during writing of the first data content; transmitting from said first server a request to said select one or more second servers to verify that each byte of the accessed first data content read from the first data storage memory matches byte of the accessed first data content written to all of the plurality of storage devices by way of an integrity measure; transmitting from said first server a request to said select one or more second servers to verify said accessed first data content read from the first data storage memory matches byte-for-byte said first data content with said writing a second data content in response to a second data content duplication request; indicating, by said first server, rejection of any of associated said plurality of storage devices in an inventory database when an error is generated during writing of the first data content and when any of said associated said plurality of storage devices fails to contain a byte-for-byte copy of said first data content; and receiving at said first server a real-time status of the writing of the first data content and health of each of said associated said plurality of storage devices and updating the tracking identity and health of said plurality of storage devices stored at said first server.