Patent ID: 6944733

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: at least one of first circuitry to issue to second circuitry, and the second circuitry to receive, a request to initiate performance by the second circuitry of at least one input/output (I/O) operation of at least one type involving, at least in part, the second circuitry, the second circuitry being remote from the first circuitry and being disabled from initiating performance by the first circuitry of any I/O operation of the at least one type involving the first circuitry, and the second circuitry being capable of performing, at least in part, the at least one I/O operation involving the second circuitry; the first circuitry begin enabled to initiate the performance by the second circuitry of the at least one I/O operation of the at least one type involving, at least in part, the second circuitry, the at least one type comprising at least one of a data backup operation and a recovery operation; the apparatus further comprising a wireless communication link capable of transmitting the request from the first circuitry to the second circuitry; and wherein the at least one I/O operation involving, at least in part, the second circuitry comprises at least one of the following: transmitting from the second circuitry to the first circuitry, via the wireless communication link, first data to be stored remotely from the second circuitry; and receiving by the second circuitry from the first circuitry, via the wireless communication link, second data retrieved from first storage remote from the second circuitry.