Patent ID: 8560883

Claim:
A data storage system comprising: a first storage system as a first primary storage system, which has first storage ports and first logical volumes which store write data received from a computer coupled to the first storage system; a second storage system as a first secondary storage system, which has at least one second storage port of second storage ports thereof coupled to at least one first storage port of the first storage ports, and has second logical volumes which store copies of data of the first logical volumes by remote copying; a third storage system as a second secondary storage system, which has at least one third storage port of third storage ports thereof coupled to at least another first storage port of the first storage ports, and at least another third storage port of the third store ports coupled to at least another second storage port of the second storage ports, and has third logical volumes which store copies of data of the first logical volumes by remote copying; a management system, which stores: copy information which holds correspondence of copy pairs formed from the first logical volumes and the second logical volumes and from the first logical volumes and the third logical volumes, as copy groups concerned with a sequence of write data in the computer, wherein a second logical volume and a third logical volume of a copy a take-over co to take-over the remote copying for the copy group when failure occurs n the first storage system; and path remote copy relevant information which indicates, for each copy group, correspondence of: logical paths; physical paths including the first, second and third storage ports; and take-over path information concerning a take-over path between the second logical volume and the third logical volume, which is needed for the take-over copy pair of said each copy group to take-over the remote copying for said each copy group when failure occurs in the first storage system, wherein a combination of paths which includes the take-over for the copy group, configures the first, second and third logical volumes together in a triangular-coupling-configuration where: the second storage system and the third storage system are provided the data of the first logical volumes, independently of one another; and the take-over path between the second storage system and the third storage system is used when failure occurs in the first storage system, and wherein when the management system receives failure information designating a certain take-over path indicated within the take-over path information of the path remote copy relevant information, the management system determines, by referring to the path remote copy relevant information, copy groups affected by the failure of the certain take-over path, and displays identification information of the copy groups affected by the failure of the certain take-over path.